ART. 32. ] WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

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10, If any standard-keeper shall be informed or have reason to
suspect that any person is using, or has in his possession with a
fraudulent intention, any false beams, scales or measures, he shall
examine the same, and if he find them, or any of them, to be false,
he shall seize the same as a forfeiture, and adjust and sell them at
public auction, and shall annually return a statement of the money
received therefor under oath to the county commissioners.

Id s 10
1825, c 206,
ss 7, 8
Keeper to seize
false measures

11. If any weight or measure which shall have been branded or
stamped as herein required, shall be broken, injured, altered or
changed, or condemned by the standard-keeper, and shall be found
thereafter in the use of any person within this State, such person
shall forfeit and pay twenty dollars for each offence.

Id. s 11
1825, c 206, s 4
Penally for
using condemn-
ed weights or
measures.

1 2, Each standard-keeper shall receive such compensation for
the discharge of his duties as the county commissioners shall think
proper to allow, which shall be levied on the assessable property of
the county and collected as other county charges

Id s 12
1825, c 206, s 9.
Pay of keeper.

13. Whenever any standard keeper shall be applied to, to adjust
scales, weights and measures, by adding to, or diminishing the same,
or to adjust scale-beams, he shall be allowed an additional reasona-
ble compensation therefor, to be paid by the party so applying for
his services.

Id s 13
1825, c 206, s 10
Additional com-
pensation.

14. The one-half of all fines and forfeitures imposed by the pre-
ceding sections of this article shall go to the informer, the other to
the use of the county, and in all suits therefor, the informer shall be

Id s 14
1825, c 206. s 11.
Fines and for-
feitures, how
applied

a competent witness
IS. Nothing contained in the preceding sections of this article
shall apply to the city of Baltimore, or to any private housekeeper
not in trade or pursuing some kind of merchandise as a business.

Id s 15
182o, c 206, n 13.
Not to apply to
city of Balti-
more or private
persons

16. All measures of dried fruit used in. this State shall be fixed
and uniform and tried by the standards herein established, and the
measure to be filled even, without rise or heap, and the fruit not
packed or pressed in the measurement thereof, and every person
violating the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of
five dollars, to be recovered before a justice of the peace as other
debts, one-half to the informer and the other half to the use of the
State.

Id s 16
1844, c 34.
Dried fruit,
how to be
measured

17. Oats shall be bought and sold in this State by struck measure
or by weight, at the rate of twenty-six pounds to the bushel.
18. Potatoes in this State shall be sold by weight, at the rate of
fifty-six pounds to the bushel, and any person offending against the
provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of ten dollars, to

1872, c 161
Cats, measure
of, or weight

Art 96, s 18
1852, c 199,
1860, c 226
Potatoes.

be recovered before any justice of the peace of the city or county
where said offence may be committed. This section shall not apply
to the sale of potatoes in the counties of Frederick, Washington,
Alleghany, Anne Arundel, Carroll and Montgomery.

1861, c 78
To what coun-
ties not to
apply

19. Hay and straw, which may be sold by weight in this State,
shall be sold by the net hundred, and every twenty hundred pounds
net weight shall be a ton.

Art 96, s 19.
1832, c 120
Hay and straw.