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REGULATIONS

OF THE

BOARD OF TRADE

GOVERNING THE INSPECTION OF FLOUR.

Shall consist of five.

Powers.

Sound.

Unsound.

Only sound

and full

weight to be

branded.

Brand.

Certificates.

Irregular
Flour.

REGULATION 1.

INSPECTION COMMITTEE.

The Board of Directors shall appoint a Standing Committee on Flour Inspection, to consist of five members, who shall be dealers in flour. This committee shall have and exercise a general control of the inspection of flour.

REGULATION II.

FLOUR TO INSPECT AS SOUND.

Flour classed as sound shall be strictly sound, free from any and every defect or fault causing either smell or taste.

REGULATION III.

FLOUR TO INSPECT AS UNSOUND.

All flour not strictly sound, whether the unsoundness be derived from the condition of the grain from which it was manufactured, or has originated in the flour, shall be classed as unsound or slightly unsound, as its condition may be.

REGULATION IV.

BRANDING.

The Inspector shall brand all flour, inspected by him in barrels, that is sound and full weight; stencils shall be used for branding, which shall read as follows: "Official Inspection, Board of Trade, Chicago," also giving month and year of inspection.

REGULATION V.

CERTIFICATE OF INSPECTION.

Certificate of inspection shall be issued by the Inspector in strict accordance with the inspection of every lot examined by him. No separate certificate shall be issued by the Inspector for two or more

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Flour

be stated.

parts of any one lot of flour inspected by him, a part of which is sound and a part unsound, or when it inspects two or more grades. When flour is inspected by sample, the certificate shall mention its condition, as well as its relation to the sample. When flour is Unsound unsound the Inspector shall state in the certificate the character of condition to the unsoundness, as musty, hard sour, soft sour, unsound, or slightly unsound, and the number of packages of each description, and also, when practicable, the number of packages that may be so stained or out of condition as to depreciate the market value of the flour. In Damaged packages. case the flour has been overhauled and cleaned on account of having been wet, and the Inspector shall deem such overhauling in any way damaging to the market value of the flour, he shall note in his certificate "wet and cleaned." Flour in round-hoop barrels and jute Round hoops sacks shall, in absence of any special agreement, be considered as sacks. regular in deliveries. If flour is in flat-hooped barrels, or cotton Flat hoops. sacks, the Inspector shall so note in his certificate, also on sample furnished to the party ordering the inspection.

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and jute

and charges

There shall be no charge for a single inspection on flour belong- Reinspection ing to the same owner for whom the first inspection was made; but on for same. more than one inspection of the same flour, and on flour which has changed ownership after the first inspection, the Inspector shall be entitled to his regular fee.

REGULATION VII.

WEIGHTS.

barrel of flour.

flour in sacks.

A barrel of flour shall be deemed to weigh 196 pounds, net; jute Weight of a and cotton export sacks, 140 pounds, gross; half-barrel jute and cotton weight of sacks, 98 pounds, gross; quarter-barrel cotton sacks, 49 pounds, gross; eighth-barrel cotton sacks, 241⁄2 pounds, gross, and no allowance shall be made for any overweight. In case of short weights on flour in Short weights barrels, the buyer shall be allowed for the shortage at the rate he pays, and, in addition, 5 cents per barrel for the expense of refilling. The Inspector shall satisfy himself in regard to weights, and in case he deems it necessary to strip some of the flour, he shall strip five barrels from each lot, and shall be entitled to 15 cents for each barrel so Fees for stripped; if it proves to be short in weight, the charge for stripping to be paid by the seller. All packages of flour which may be found largely deficient in weight, from bad order or any other cause, shall not enter into the average, but their weight shall be separately ascertained and certified to by the Inspector. When flour is sold in sacks, the gross weight shall be considered the actual weight. In case of short weight, the buyer shall be entitled to 1 cent per pound for freight. When flour in sacks is short in weight more than 2 per cent. it shall not be considered regular.

stripping.

[REGULATIONS VIII-IX.-X.-X1.J

Fees for
Inspection.

Stoeks to be reported monthly.

REGULATION VIII.

INSPECTOR'S FEES.

The fee for inspecting and branding flour within the City of Chicago shall be at the rate of 2 cents per barrel, whether the flour be in barrels or sacks, the buyer to pay one-half of the same. And unless the flour in sacks is sewed and loaded in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on Flour Inspection, the inspector will be entitled to charge for the labor necessary to put the flour in proper condition for inspection, a sum not to exceed $2 per car.

REGULATION IX.

REPORT OF STOCKS AND INSPECTIONS.

It shall be the further duty of the Inspector to ascertain the stock of flour in Chicago on the first day of each month, and to report the same to the Secretary of the Association, to be by him posted upon the bulletin of the Exchange Room. In taking the account of stock there shall be included only the amount in the several freight depots, the public warehouses, and the places of Inspections to storage by receivers, and in the city mills. The Inspector shall also furnish to the Secretary of the Association, monthly, a statement of the number of barrels and the number of sacks of flour inspected by him during the preceding month.

be reported.

Inspector to furnish samples.

REGULATION X.

SAMPLES FURNISHED AND RETAINED BY INSPECTOR.

It shall be the further duty of the Inspector to furnish in the Exchange Room, each day before 12 o'clock noon, to the parties for whom the flour is inspected, the Inspector's sample or samples (if more than one grade in each lot) of each car or lot of flour that is inspected by him, said sample or samples bearing his official stamp Samples to be upon the face of the bag. He shall also retain duplicate samples of all flour inspected by him for sixty days from the time of inspection; and, on the request of either buyer or seller, shall preserve the sample for a period not to exceed four months.

retained.

Appeals.

How conducted.

REGULATION XI.
APPEALS.

In case either the buyer or seller is dissatisfied with the inspection of flour, he shall have the privilege of taking an appeal to the Committee on Flour Inspection, upon paying the fee of five dollars for every appealed case; this fee to be paid to the Secretary of the Board by the party making the appeal, at the time the appeal is made; such fees to be paid by the Secretary to the committee, in case the Inspector is sustained, but in case the Inspector is not sustained, the fee shall be refunded to the applicant for the appeal. The samples, without name or date, shall be furnished by the Inspector, who shall state the cause of appeal. Neither buyer nor seller shall be represented before the committee, and the decision of a majority of the committee shall be final.

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absence of

In the absence of special agreement to the contrary, it is estab- Cartage in lished as a regulation of trade that in sales of flour any cartage for special moving the property from where it is at the time of sale shall be paid by the buyer.

REGULATION XIII.

REPEAL OR AMENDMENT OF REGULATIONS.

agreement.

amendments.

No change shall be made in these regulations or recommenda- Repeal or tions by the Board of Directors before submitting the same to a meeting, properly called, of the members of the Board of Trade that are interested in the flour trade, in which ten shall constitute a quorum.

RECOMMENDATIONS.
I.

The Committee on Flour Inspection recommend to millers and Flour in shippers of flour the following requirements of standard sacks:

NO. 140-JUTE EXPORT SACKS

Shall be from the best material, double stitched, not using less than an equivalent to 40x49 inch mangled or craped finished material, weighing not less than 12 ounces per yard of 40 inches in width, or 15 ounces for the complete bag. If from starched or sized material, the complete bag should not weigh less than 16 ounces.

NO. 280-JUTE EXPORT SACKS

Shall be from the best material, double stitched, not using less than an equivalent to 50x63 inch mangled or craped finished material, weighing not less than 15 ounces per yard of 50 inches in width, or 25 ounces for the complete bag. If from starched or sized material, the complete bag should not weigh less than 26 ounces.

Seamless jute sacks must be from same weight and quality of material, etc., but require 4 per cent. less material, and may weigh 4 per cent. less.

140 POUND COTTON EXPORT SACKS

Shall be double stitched, best Twill Drill, Osnaburg or Duck, free from starch or sizing, using of Twill or Drill not less than an equivalent to 40x47 inches, or, if Osnaburg or Duck, not less than 37+x51 inch material, the complete bag weighing not less than 9 ounces.

sacks, requirements.

How to close

Backs.

II.

[RECOMMENDATIONS II-IIL)

The Committee on Flour Inspection also recommend to millers and shippers of flour in sacks to be inspected in this market, that in closing the sack the mouth edge of the sack be turned in without rolling, and sewed with a single seam, the stitches to be at least 11⁄2 inches apart. (See Fig. 1.) This will allow the Inspector to insert the trier between the stitches without making holes in the cloth.

FIG. 1.

How to load sacks.

III.

The Committee on Flour Inspection further recommend to millers, shippers of flour, and railway agents, that in loading cars the following instructions be observed:

One hundred and forty pound sacks should be piled in two tiers lengthwise of the car, the mouths of sacks placed toward center of car (see Fig. 2), leaving the space between the tiers of sacks in the center of the car free and clear for the convenience of the Inspector.

The sacks of flour should be piled as follows: The sacks on the floor to be placed four inches from the side walls of car, and sacks so piled as to gradually incline to the walls of the car until the top rows press strongly against the said walls, as shown in Fig. 2.

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