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ART. 32. ] WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
when paid to go to the informer, and the residue to be paid into the
treasury of the State.
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48. Every person who shall sell, or offer, or expose for sale, or
who shall cause or procure to be sold, or offered or exposed for sale,
any article or substance required by section forty-six hereof to be
marked, branded, stamped, or labelled, not so marked, branded,
stamped or labelled, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on trial
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Prosecution of
seller
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for such misdemeanor, proof of the sale or offer or exposure alleged,
shall be presumptive evidence of knowledge of the character of
the article so sold.
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Proof of sale.
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ARTICLE XXXII.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
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1 Standards
2 Appointment of keepers of standards
3 Bond of keeper
4 Weights and measures to be inspected,
penalty for violation, bow to be branded
5 None but branded to be used, penalty,
6 6< ale-beams to be tried and branded.
7 When and where keepers shall attend to
inspect, notice
8 Keeper to keep register
9 Penalty for refusing to have beams, etc,
adjusted
10 Keeper to seize false measures
11 Penalty for using condemned, etc, weights
and measures
12 Pay of keeper.
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13 Additional compensation
14 Fine and forfeiture, how applied.
15 Not to apply to the city of Baltimore or
private persons
16 Dried fruit, how to be measured
17 Oats, measure of, or weights
18 Potatoes, to what counties not applicable.
19 Hay and straw
20 Size and dimensions of corn-barrel meas-
ure, etc, penalty
21 Articles sold by weights, ton.
22 Staves
23 Penalty for selling goods by false mark
24. Penalty, how recovered
25 Charges for freight, measurement, etc, of
gram, penalty, right of appeal
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MEASUREMENT OF OYSTERS.
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26 Sale of oysters in the shell in Baltimore,
Crisfield, or at oyster-packing establish-
ments, dimensions of measure, licens-
ed measure in Baltimore, license, fees,
penalty
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27 Measures to be inspected and stamped,
violation, penalty, exception
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1. The standards for weights and measures in this State, except
as otherwise provided in this article, shall be such as are used at
the custom-house in the city of Baltimore.
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Art 96, s 1
1825, c 206, s. 1.
Standards
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2. The county commissioners of each county shall, except where
otherwise directed by the local law, on or before the first day of
May in each year, appoint some person as keeper of the standards
of weights and measures, who shall safely keep and preserve the
same, and when required, deliver them to the county commissioners,
or to such person as they may appoint to receive the same, and who
shall perform the several duties prescribed by this article.
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1825, c 206, S 2
Appointment of
keepers of
standards
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