TITLE 10. wells for their own use, at such place as the superintendent shall designate, and to pump salt water for their own use, and to erect such reservoirs as may be necessary, at their own expense. Ib. Aqueducts and conduits. Penalty for injuring them. Penalty for adulterating salt water. Bittern pans. How used. Penalty if bittern pans $71. The manufacturers so pumping salt water for their own use, shall not be liable to pay the duty of two mills on the bushel, to the state, as prescribed in the sixty-fifth section of this Title. $72. For the purpose of carrying the salt water from the state reservoirs to any salt manufactory, now erected, or hereafter to be erected, agreeably to the provisions of this Title, the owner of such manufactory may enter upon the lands of any individual or company, and may carry the water across the same, by suitable and proper aqueducts or conduits, paying to the owner of any such lands, the damages which he may sustain thereby, to be appraised by the superintendent and inspector. $73. If any person shall wilfully injure any such aqueduct, by cutting, boring, or otherwise, or shall remove or displace any log, or penstock, plug, gate, trough, or spout, belonging to any such aqueducts, or conduits; or shall wilfully injure any cistern, reservoir, receiver, vat, or trough, belonging to any salt manufactory; he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be fined the sum of fifty dollars; and he may also be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months. The injured party shall also be entitled to recover treble damages and costs, in a civil action against such person. $74. No manufacturer of salt shall be allowed to put any article or ingredient into the salt water, either when in his cisterns, or whilst evaporating, other than such as shall, from time to time, be allowed and approved of by the superintendent and inspector, in the general rules and regulations which they shall adopt in relation thereto; and every person offending against any such rule or regulation, shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of fifty dollars. $75. Each manufacturer shall keep one good bittern-pan, for each kettle or pan which he shall employ in the manufacturing of salt, for the purpose of removing the feculent matter during the process of making salt. $76. It shall be the duty of the superintendent and inspector, in the general rules and regulations which they shall adopt, to regulate the manner of using such pans, and of removing the impurities contained in the salt water, during the process of manufacturing the same into salt, and the manner of cleansing the kettles and pans. $77. Every manufacturer who shall neglect to provide the full not provided. number of bittern-pans above required, shall, for each day's neglect, forfeit the sum of twenty-five cents for each pan which he shall so neglect to provide; and for every day's neglect to comply with and obey the general rules and regulations, or any of them, referred to in the last section, he shall forfeit the sum of two dollars. ART. 4. cers as to bit § 78. It shall be the duty of the inspector and his deputies, in their Duty of offdaily examinations of the several salt manufactories, to ascertain and tern pans. examine, whether the requisite number of bittern-pans are contained in each manufactory, and whether the regulations above mentioned are fully complied with. and waste. $79. It shall also be their duty in their daily examinations, to ex- As to leaks amine particularly as to any leaks or waste of salt water from the cisterns attached to the several manufactories, or from the logs and conduits leading the water to the same; and as to any leak or waste of salt water, either by negligence or design, whether the same be in the cisterns, logs or conduits, or in the use of water in the manufactory, or in letting the same into the cisterns, or in any other manner; and to order such manufacturer, or any of his agents and servants who may be present, forthwith to stop such leak or waste. $80. In case such order shall not be complied with, as soon as may be practicable, the inspector or deputy shall stop all communication between such manufactory and the logs and conduits leading to the state reservoirs, so that no more salt water shall come to such manufactory, until the leak and waste be effectually prevented; and such manufacturer shall, in addition, forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars. Ib. Penalty $81. Every manufacturer or other person who shall open the . communication between such manufactory and the logs or conduits leading to the state reservoirs, without the consent of the inspector or of one of his deputies, or shall aid, assist, counsel, or advise in opening the same, without such consent, shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars. conduits. $82. It shall also be the duty of the inspector and his deputies, As to main from time to time, to examine the main conduits or line of logs, conducting the salt water from the state reservoirs to the different sections of manufactories, or to individuals or companies, who receive their supply of salt water from the same conduits or line of logs. $83. In case any leak or waste of salt water shall be found in any such conduit or line of logs, the inspector shall forthwith report the same to the superintendent, who shall immediately thereupon stop all communications with the state reservoirs, and with such conduits or line of logs; and such communication shall remain so stopped, until the inspector or one of his deputies shall make report to the superin tendent, that such leak or waste is prevented. TITLE 10 Ib. Penalty. Cisterns. Penalty for not providing cisterns. Penalty for violating rules. Ib. Fine salt manufacto be erected. $84. If any person, without the consent of the superintendent, shall open, or aid, assist, counsel or advise, in opening, the communition between the state reservoirs or any of them, and such line of logs or conduits when so stopped, he shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars. $85. Each manufacturer of fine salt, shall have two cisterns or reservoirs attached to, and adjoining his manufactory. Such cisterns or reservoirs shall be well made, and, as near as may be, free from leaks; and each of them shall be of sufficient capacity, to contain as much salt water, as can be boiled or evaporated in such manufactory, from the kettles or pans set therein, in two days. $86. No manufacturer of fine salt, who shall neglect to provide such reservoirs or cisterns, shall be permitted to receive any salt water from the state reservoirs. $87. If any manufacturer of salt shall be found habitually neglecting any of the rules and regulations prescribed by the superintendent, inspector, and first judge of the county of Onondaga, or any two of them; or shall be in the habit of making bad salt; or if the quantity of salt inspected from his manufactory, shall be found materially less than is usually produced from a manufactory of the same capacity of kettles, for the time it was actually in operation; it shall be the duty of the superintendent and inspector, to suspend the right of such person to carry on such manufactory, for such length of time as they may deem proper, not exceeding three months at any one time. $88. If any such manufacturer shall, before the period of such suspension be elapsed, set such manufactory in operation, the saltmanufacturing-lot on which the same shall be erected, with the erections and appurtenances, shall be thereby forfeited, on the conviction of such offender, to the people of this state; and the superintendent shall proceed to enter on and sell the same, as provided in the one hundred and forty-eighth section of this Title. $89. It shall not be lawful for any person to erect any manufacries, where to tory of fine salt upon any part of the reservation, other than such as shall have been already appropriated and laid out for that purpose, pursuant to law; nor shall the limits of the fine-salt-manufactories be extended, until all the vacant lots within the present limits shall be fully occupied with such manufactories, unless by consent in writing of the superintendent and inspector. Incorpora. ufacturing coarse salt. S90. Any number of persons disposed to engage in the manufactions for man- turing of coarse salt, may become incorporated for that purpose, according to the provisions made by law for the incorporation of manufacturing companies; but the stock of any one company so incorporated, shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars.84 (84) Laws of 1821, p. 234, § 19; 1825, p. 472, § 42. S91. Any individual, or any such incorporated company, intend- ART. 4. ing to erect works for the manufacturing of coarse salt, before enter- Application ing on any of the lands of this state set apart for that purpose, shall to land-office. make application to the commissioners of the land-office, setting forth the amount of capital intended to be invested in such manufactory, and the quantity of land necessary to the erection thereof. $92. Such application shall be verified by the oath or affirmation I. of such individual, or of the president or acting agent of said company, that the application is made in good faith, and that the facts set forth in the same are true. ers to set apart land. $93. The commissioners of the land-office shall thereupon set Commissionapart such land, or so much as they shall deem reasonable, for the purposes of such individual or company, in a compact form, as near as may be, on such part of the land reserved for the erection of such manufactories, as such individual or company shall select. ed to com $94. Such individual or company shall thereafter have four years Time allowto complete the works thereon; but if such individual or company plate works. shall not, within one year thereafter, commence such works, and actually expend thereon at least one-tenth part of the capital so specified, such location shall be void; and the land, except such parts thereof as shall have works actually erected thereon, shall be liable to be located by any other individual or company. occupied. $95. Any part of any such location which, at the expiration of Land to be the said four years, shall not be actually occupied by manufactories of coarse salt, pursuant to the intention of the original location, may be again set apart, by the commissioners of the land-office, to any other person or company, for the erection of such manufactories. ers of land works. S96. Any individual or company may erect salt-works for mak- When owning coarse salt on their own land, near any of the salt springs in the may erect town of Salina, and within the district where salt is now made, and receive the salt water from the state reservoirs, under such regulations as shall, from time to time, be prescribed, by the superintendent and inspector, or by the legislature; provided there shall be a sufficient quantity of salt water to supply all the manufactories, now or hereafter to be erected on the state reservation, depending for their supplies of salt water on the state reservoirs. sites. $97. Every such individual or company shall first enter into a pre-requicovenant with the people of this state, to be approved and taken by the superintendent, subjecting such land, and the works to be erected thereon, to the same duties, regulations, forfeitures, and liabilities, to which the lands of the state, leased for the manufacture of salt, and the works erected thereon, are now, or may hereafter, by law, be made liable. TITLE 10. Owners of lots may erect works. Buildings, &c. to be erected. Penalty for destroying $98. Whenever any owner of real estate, bordering on the lateral canal from Elm-street to the Onondaga lake, and not in the village of Salina, shall lay out the same into salt-manufacturing-lots, of five rods front, on the canal, and of sufficient depth for the accommodation of salt manufactories, and shall enter into a covenant, in regard to any such lot, as provided in the last preceding section, he shall be entitled to erect a manufactory of salt thereon, and to take the necessary supply of salt water for the same, from the surplus salt water of any of the salt springs at Salina, according to the provisions of the existing laws in that respect. $99. The manufactory, so to be erected, shall contain a good and sufficient building, with ample store-rooms, and proper and suitable reservoirs and cisterns for holding salt water, and a block of kettles, not less than fourteen in number, of the capacity of at least ninety gallons each, well set therein; and not more than one manufactory, of two blocks of kettles, shall be erected on any one of such lots. S100. If any person shall wilfully burn or destroy any salt manusalt-works. factory, or the buildings appurtenant thereto, or any part thereof, or shall wilfully burn or destroy any of the buildings, reservoirs, pumps, conductors, or water conduits, belonging to the state, used and occupied in the raising of salt water for the use of manufacturers of salt; or shall wilfully injure the same, with the intention to prevent or retard the pumping or raising of salt water, for the use of the manufacturers, or to retard such manufacturers in the use thereof; every such person shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison, for a term not exceeding five years. ARTICLE FIFTH. Regulations and Penalties concerning the Inspection, Packing, and Removal of Salt, and the Payment of Duties. SEC. 101. Applications for inspection, how to be made; inspector actually to examine all salt offered for inspection. 102. Salt to be exposed to touch and view of the inspector. 103. Inspector not to pass any salt as good, unless it be well made and free from filth. 104. Strength for lifting salt, and auger, by whom to be provided. 105 Manufacturers may provide scales at their own works. 106. Inspectors may examine, on oath, as to quantity of salt loaded in bulk. 107. If the inspector be fully satisfied, the weighing or measuring of the salt dispensed 108. If salt be found of proper quality, &c. inspector to deliver inspection bills. 110. Inspection bills to be delivered to clerk or keeper of superintendent's office, and 111. Duty of such clerk or keeper. 112. Person paying duties, to deliver one receipted inspection bill to inspector, and to keep the other himself. 113. Inspector thereupon to mark the barrels, and how. 114. Inspection not complete till bill be so delivered; barrel to be plugged. 116. Salt not to be inspected or retailed before sunrise or after sundown. |