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Show ' JfiPimk "'PfoposedBcctv Sugar Bounty Law in rf( v. jr$; Tho first section create the office of ' & fflm commissioner of beet sugar manufacture - Jk end provides that for tho next five years, -4 " ,km . the secretary of tho State Agricultural I' J&i$2SMm . ' Socioty shall act as such commissi oner MMfofflPBr ' ' '1 ata'salary of $500 per annum. HPfK Section 2 provides for persons Inlend- L f JP" ' ing to engage in bct sugar manufactur- TilF. ' ing can retf'9ter w'11' tu'3 commissioner, JWw fltatinglta purpose, and certain other " jfr 1 information, and shall be entitled to a &g fyljimh ' liaroo the fluids apiiropr.atfed by the bk.'Jaj ""State as bounties. aisfr 3HHf Section 3 provides tlmt nil beets on Br V rtsSW If" if ffsWEj which bounty is claimed shall be grown f "4?''5 in this State; that n registered iiinuu- '' 'fy facturer can claim no bounty on beets ' f s grown by himself, and on none for whio'i i i Vf , he has paid less llian $4 net a ton ; mid P "''liffi, ' ou ll auar containing less than U0 per It " Jlfflw ' cenc cryatallized sucrose. wia0f&8Q&r Section 4 makes it tho duty of the B ''fJ coiibumar to appoint u lesident in- " Jm" spector, under u bond of $2000. at each S )Vu J factory making exceeding 12001) pounds E , ; t . .ofsugar a day. j?r ' , Section 5 defines tho duties of tho iu- W ' , spector to bo tho weighing in of all beets ft. j , and that his determination shall bo ff , ' V; fiual between buyer and seller; that he , t ' 4 shall stencil all packages of finished J V sugar, keeping au accurate account of the weight of both beets and sugar, and ? " -n report daily to tho commissioner at .,; 'U'' lJtf Columbus. V , , Section (J makes tho compensation of if-1 the inspector . a day. and that of nn 1 .JfejSl ' ' assistant $2 a day. miVii Rimini fmntrii ntf& g.;- -mii i f n t't llf1 lBun'tfra'medrilffat'tern'iiiie i. " by tho couimisaioner, by ag'gregiatii i(J ' reports of inspectors, verified by oatlis, ' and gives the commissioner power to U inspect tho private books of the factory, i etc. rf Section 8 designates tho professor of chemistry of the Ohio State University ft , as the person to fix the quality and . quantitative condition of tho product. " ' 1(' v Section 0 provides that nnnuallv, on s,i . A "& or before tho fii'atday In April each year. i If "jv' tho commission shall prepare a detailed ; " statement of the quantity of sugar made K ' ,4i by each concern registered and churning js W y bounty, and Hhall appropriate on "f sugar made in the proceeding caui- fc-Y "' JlLf Aw - Section 10 provides that not more tluui 'i, ' ivrrW one cent a pound shall be paid; that the j ,'t,',,v'' commission shall certify to the State .WJ i " . ll' ' Auditor tho amount duo each manu- ', ; ( ' - ' fucturor, and tho Auditor shall draw his X S ' vwarraucon tho Tieastuer for tho same. l' 'f ' Section II makes it tho duty oi tho It ' ,commi3sioner.to keop in his ofih'.o books ' f "V showing all tho transactions herein pro-,, pro-,, ' vided, and compels him to make a full ' ',''"" i r , ,aud comploto leport to the Uovoruor each year, r Section 12 appropriates the sum of L 450,000, or so much thereof as is neces- ' .eary, each year for five years, to bo 'k, , paid "iu the manner prescribed in this ! v . .act and for tho purpose- of making "jf i v .cirectual the provisions thereof." ' ' Section ID makes tuo act take efl'ect t .und bo in force from and after ita 'irj , ,( 'r j.esago. v, " The bill has gotten no ftuther than to y 1 ' ,, bo Introduced, and there is yet no way mA ! v in wiifch to judge as tu its fate. This 1KJ v General Assembly, ho far as parlies are ml concerned, is not a unic by any means, ifl and up to date has accomplished k practically nothing. Senator Alexander il belonga to thu majority,- winch has ono jLj , 'yote in the Senate and half a dozen in M ""T'l"" l -, .t i ' the Houee to Bpnre, but th recent senatorial contost demorr.lizd party discipline, and now it is dlificnlt to predict the reniilt on any ineasuie. Tlleri'liiu iucetiv.li, however, but that rutin: kind of a law1 looking to the encouragement of beet-sugar making will be iti U.v- books within the next two or three yeaie Louisiana Planter. |