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Excerpt from Weights and Measures and Net Container Laws Deputies. Salaries. Sec. 3. The state superintendent may appoint a deputy, who shall have the same powers as the state superintendent. Such deputy shall receive a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, payable in the same manner as other state officers are paid. He shall be at all times subject to removal at the pleasure of the state superintendent. The state superintendent may also appoint additional deputies from time to time to serve as sealers of weights and measures at the request of counties, as provided in section sixteen of this act. Such deputies when actually employed shall be paid at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars per month by the county engaging their services and not by the state. They also shall receive their actual traveling expenses from such county. [1915 Amendment.] Traveling and office expenses. Sec. 4. The state superintendent and his deputy shall each be allowed their actual traveling expenses, to be approved by the state board of control in the same manner as other claims against the state. The state superintendent shall also be allowed necessary office expenses to be approved by the state board of control in the same manner as other claims against the state. Standards of weights and measures. Sec. 5. The standards of weights and measures received from the United States under a resolution of congress approved June 14, 1836, and such new weights and measures as shall be received from the United States as standard weights and measures in addition thereto or renewal thereof, and such as shall be procured by the state in conformity therewith and certified by the national bureau of standards, shall be the state standards by which all state, county and municipal standards of weights and measures shall be tried, proved and sealed. Custody of standards. Tolerances. Sec. 6. The standards referred to in the preceding section shall be kept by the state superintendent in a safe and suitable place in his office from which they shall not be removed except for repairs or certification. He shall maintain such standards in good order and shall submit them at least once in ten years to the national bureau of standards for certification. Upon demand the secretary of state shall deliver to the state superintendent all standards now under the control and in the possession of the secretary of state in his capacity of ex officio state sealer of weights and measures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.