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WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. [ART. 32.

Id s 3
1325, c 206, a 2
Bond of keeper

3. The person so appointed shall, before he enters upon the duties
of his office, give bond to the county commissioners in the penal
sum of five hundred dollars conditioned for the faithful discharge
of all the duties appertaining to his office

Id s 4
. 1825, c 206. s 3.
Weights and
measures to be
inspected
Penalty for
violation

4. All weights and measures used in this State in the vending of
articles, shall be inspected by the said standard keeper for the
county, once in every year, under a penalty not exceeding twenty
dollars, to be paid by the person owning or using the same, and

How to be
branded

when adjusted, shall be by the standard-keeper branded, marked, or
stamped with the letters M. S. meaning thereby Maryland Standard,
in such manner and on such parts of such weights and measures as
in his judgment will be most lasting and effectual in preventing
fraudulent practices or impositions in the use thereof.

Id s 5
1825, c 206, s. 3
None but
branded to be
used

5. The weights and measures so examined, branded or stamped,
and no other, shall be used within this State in the vending of such
articles as are directed by law to be or are usually sold by weight

Penalty.

or measure, under a penalty of twenty dollars, and all articles sold
within this State shall be sold by said weights or measures under
the like penalty.

Id s 6
1825, c 206, s 5
Scale-beams to
be tried and
branded

6. All scale-beams used in the vending of articles in this State
shall be inspected and stamped by the keeper of the standards of
weights, as weights are directed to be stamped, and any person
using scale-beams in this State not stamped as herein directed,
shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for each
offence.

Id s 7
1825, c 206, s 6.
When and
where keepers
shall attend to
inspect.

y. The keepers of standards of weights and measures shall attend
at the different markets, towns, and villages, in the county, for
which they shall respectively be appointed, at least once in each
year, and at the different public inspecting warehouses in the said
counties at least twice in each year, on some certain days to be ap-

Notice

pointed by the county commissioners, of which days public notice
shall be given by advertisements inserted in some one or more news-
papers in the counties in which there may be such paper printed,
and also by advertisements set up at some conspicuous place in the
said markets, warehouses, villages and towns, and shall inspect and
adjust all beams and scales, weights and measures, used or intended
to be used in the said county.

Id s B
1825, c 206, s 6
Keeper to keep
register

8. Each keeper of standards shall keep a book in which he shall
register the names of the persons whose beams and scales, weights
and measures, he has adjusted, together with the day of the month
and year, and the number and description of the same so adjusted,
which book he shall submit to the inspection of the county commis-
sioners once in each year, or oftener if required.

Id s 9
1825, c 206, s 7.
Penalty for re-
fusing to have
beams, etc.,
adjusted

0, If any person shall neglect or refuse to have his beams and
scales, weights and measures, inspected and adjusted as herein di-
rected, when required to do so by the proper officer, he shall forfeit
and pay five dollars for every day during such delinquency.