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The Chief Inspector of grain is hereby authorized to collect on all grain inspected under his direction as follows:

For IN-INSPECTION, 35 cents per carload; 10 cents per wagon or cart load; 40 cents per 1,000 bushels from canal boats; of 1 cent per bushel from bags.

For OUT-INSPECTION, 50 cents per 1,000 bushels to vessels and cars; 50 cents per carload to cars for all special inspection; 50 cents per carload to teams; or 10 cents per wagon load to teams.

EXTRACTS FROM THE RULES.

PRESCRIBED BY THE BOARD OF RAILROAD AND WAREHOUSE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF GRAIN INSPECTION AND WAREHOUSE REGISTRATION IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO, AND IN FORCE FROM AND AFTER DECEMBER 3, 1887.

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"PLUGGED,” “ LOADED or SCOURED GRAIN.

The said Chief Inspector, and all persons inspecting grain under his direction, shall in no case make the grade of the grain above that of the poorest quality found in any lot of grain inspected, when it has evidently been "plugged," or otherwise "improperly" loaded for the purpose of deception. Wheat which has been subjected to "scouring," or to some process equivalent thereto, shall not be graded higher than No. 3.

ATTEMPTS AT FRAUD OR INTERFERENCE.

All persons employed in the inspection of grain shall promptly report to the Chief Inspector in writing all attempts to defraud the system of grain inspection established by law; and all instances where warehousemen shall deliver, or attempt to deliver, grain of a lower grade than that called for by the warehouse receipt.

They shall also, in the same manner, report all attempts of receivers or shippers of grain, or any other person interested therein, to instruct, or in any improper way to influence the action or opinion of any inspector in the discharge of his duty; and the Chief Inspector shall report all such cases to the Commission.

CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES.

No claim for damages on account of error in the inspection of any lot of grain (except grain inspected from public warehouses in accordance with law) will be entertained or allowed by the Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, unless complaint of such inspection shall be made to the Chief Inspector before the grain in question shall be removed from the car in which it is inspected, or before it shall leave the jurisdiction of the Department.

Grain transferred from the car in which it was inspected to another, must be inspected after transfer to entitle the owner to have any claim arising thereunder considered by the Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners.

[RULES I-II-III.-IV.-V.-VI.]

EXTRACTS FROM THE RULES

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE ASSISTANT INSPECTORS AND HELPERS, ESTABLISHED BY THE CHIEF INSPECTOR AND APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF RAILROAD AND WAREHOUSE COMMISSIONERS, AND IN FORCE FROM AND AFTER DECEMBER 3, 1887. RULE I.

HOURS OF SERVICE.

Assistant Inspectors and helpers will be at their posts and ready for business on the railroad tracks or at the elevators to which they may be assigned, at 7 o'clock A. M. each morning from the 15th day of March to the 15th day of November, and at 8 o'clock A. M. during the remainder of the year. They will remain at their posts until 6 o'clock P. M. from the 15th day of April until the 1st day of October, and until 5 o'clock P. M. during the remainder of the year.

RULE II.

Assistant Inspectors and Helpers are especially instructed to use all due care in cases where it becomes necessary to remove boards to obtain ingress into cars in order to properly inspect the grain in such cars, to replace all such boards removed in such a manner as to prevent leakage or waste of grain from cars.

RULE III.

EARLIER HOURS.

When the receipts are large, and the interests of the trade require an earlier inspection, all Assistant Inspectors and helpers assigned to duty on the track will begin work at as early an hour as practicable. RULE IV.

EVENING WORK.

Inspectors stationed at elevators will, when necessary to complete the cargo or shipment upon which they may be engaged, remain on duty as late in the evening as they can see to inspect grain safely.

RULE V.

WET WEATHER AND DARKNESS.

No Inspector stationed at an elevator is authorized to inspect out of store after dark or in wet weather, except on receipt, personally, or through the office of the Chief Inspector, of an order written upon the printed blanks furnished by the Department, filled and signed by the owner of the grain or his authorized agent, relieving such Inspector of all responsibility for damage which may be caused by such wet weather or loss by such errors as are liable to occur by reason of darkness; but in every case the Inspector must be personally present when the grain is actually delivered on board, making his report of the inspection after such actual delivery.

RULE VI.

All grain in store in any warehouse of Class "A" at the time any amendment to the established rules of inspection (affecting such grain) may hereafter go into effect shall be inspected out (in satisfaction of warehouse receipts dated prior to that time only) in accordance with the rules as they stood prior to such amendment.

REGULATIONS

-FOR THE

INSPECTION OF PROVISIONS.

Duty of inspectors.

Certificates.

On lard.

Removal of provisions

Fees for inspecting by sample.

Beef and pork.

S P. meats.

Boxed meats.

Full inspection. Beef and pork.

S. P. meats.

Dry salted meats.

Lard.

REGULATION 1. For the examination of provisions sold as Standard, it shall be the duty of any Inspector properly appointed by the Association, on receiving notice, to go to any packing house or warehouse in the city, to examine provisions, in such quantities as may be required, selecting the same in such a manner, from the lots specified, as, in his judgment, will give a fair sample of the whole.

REG. 2. If, upon examination, the property is found, in all respects, up to the requirements of the classification of the grades adopted by the Association, he shall issue a certificate to that effect, which certificate shall state the number of packages, pieces, or pounds examined, and also the number of packages, pieces, or pounds in the lot to which the examination is intended to apply, and that the packages (if any) are in good merchantable order and condition. In the case of lard, no certificate for inspection shall be issued unless every package is examined; but on request of the owner or person ordering the inspection, the Inspector may examine a part of a lot, and issue a certificate of such examination, stating the number of packages examined, and also the whole number of packages in the lot.

REG. 3. When necessary to remove property for the convenience of examination, it shall be the duty of the Inspector to send for the same, that a fair sample may be obtained. In no case should a certificate be granted on samples delivered by the seller.

REG. 4. The fees for inspection are established as follows: For inspection by sampling-including repacking and coopering-beef and pork, for the first five barrels, eighty (80) cents per barrel, and for each additional barrel, twenty-five (25) cents. For inspecting S. P. meats, for the first five tierces, one (1) dollar per tierce, and for each additional tierce, twenty-five (25) cents. For inspecting boxed meats, for the first five boxes, one (1) dollar per box, and for each additional box, fifty (50) cents. When the whole of a lot is inspected-labor and coopering to be furnished by the seller-for beef and pork, ten (10) cents per barrel. For S. P. meats, in lots of fifty (50) tierces or more, twelve and a half (121) cents per tierce; in lots of one hundred (100) tierces or more,ten (10) cents per tierce. For bulk or boxed meats, in carload lots or more, fifteen (15) cents per one thousand (1,000) pounds. For lard in lots of one hundred (100) tierces or more, four (4) cents

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per tierce. For tallow and grease, five (5) cents per tierce. The fees Tallow and for weighing, not including breaking down and repiling, are estab- weighing. lished as follows: Lard and grease, in lots of one hundred (100) packages or more, four (4) cents per package. Tallow, in half-hogsheads, or smaller packages, five (5) cents per package; in hogsheads, ten (10) cents each. Bulk meats, not including labor, ten (10) cents per one thousand (1,000) pounds. For stripping lard and grease, at regular Stripping. warehouses, not less than five (5) packages, fifty (50) cents per package. For the labor of breaking down and repiling, the Inspector Breaking shall be paid three (3) cents per package, the same to be paid to the repiling. warehouseman if repiled, or to the party shipping the property if shipped without repiling.

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REG. 5. It shall be the duty of the Inspector, when requested by Repacked the owner, either at any packing-house, warehouse, or in yards provided by the Inspector, to overhaul and inspect provisions, according to the qualifications and classifications authorized; two hundred pounds of meat, with abundance of good salt, to be repacked into each barrel, and cooperage to be put in good order; each barrel of provisions that is sound, sweet, and free from any and every defect, to have grade and date of inspection branded thereon, and the word Branding. "Repacked," as hereinafter specified; and any portion that is defective to be branded, in like manner, "Rusty," "Sour," or "Tainted," as the case may be; the said brand to be placed with the Inspector's brand across the regular packer's brand; such provisions, according to the grade or quality, to be classed as "Repacked 200 lbs."

REG. 6. The Inspector shall use metallic letters and figures, Branding marking iron, or stencil for their dates and class of inspection.

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REG. 7. It shall also be the duty of the Inspector to put his Branding metallic brand, marking iron, or stencil on all samples of provisions in tierces or barrels that he inspects; and he shall pass no hog products in tierces or barrels as Standard, unless the real packer's name, location, number of pieces, date, and weight of the products contained therein are branded, according to these Rules, on the head of every package.

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REG. 8. Should the Inspector be called upon to inspect pickled Pickled meats meats, and upon examination he should be of the opinion that the number of pounds required by these Rules had not been originally packed, he shall not pass them as Standard, but shall refer the matter at once to the Committee on Provision Inspection, who shall investigate, and if a satisfactory explanation can be given or arrived at, they shall instruct the Inspector to proceed and inspect and pass them; but if not satisfactory to the committee they shall, in their judgment, make the fact known to the Association in any way they may think most proper.

REG. 9. Contents of each package of pickled meats must show a Uniformity of reasonable uniformity in weight, according to its class.

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REG. 10. It shall be the further duty of the Inspectors during Visitation of the packing season to visit frequently the different packing-houses packing to see that provisions are properly dated and branded at time of being packed.

Cut of sides may be changed.

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REG. 11. Dry salted rough sides may be made into short rib or clear sides, and dry salted short rib sides may be made into short clear sides, if, in all other respects, they are up to the requirements, and shall be classed as Standard.

REG. 12. All the foregoing regulations, and the requirements as to the cutting and packing of hog products, must be justly and liberally construed, and no property shall be rejected or condemned on mere technicalities; but this shall not be regarded as giving license to departure from their general spirit and intent.

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