(610 ILCS 110/1) (from Ch. 114, par. 229)
Sec. 1.
That in all counties of the third class, and in
all cities having not less than 50,000 inhabitants, where bulk grain,
millstuffs or seeds are delivered by any railroad transporting the same
from initial points to another road for transportation to other points,
such road or roads receiving the same for transportation to said points or
other connections leading thereto, shall provide suitable appliances for
unloading, weighing and transferring such property from one car to another
without mixing or in any way changing the identity of the property so
transferred, and such property shall be accurately weighed in suitably
covered hopper scales, which will determine the actual net weight of the
entire contents of any carload of grain, millstuffs or seeds at a single
draft, without gross or tare, and which weights shall always be given in
the receipts or bills of lading and used as the basis of any freight
contracts affecting such shipments between such railroad companies and the
owners, agents or shippers of such grain, millstuffs or seeds so
transported and transferred.
(Source: Laws 1887, p. 253.)
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