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The Maryland Code, Public General Laws, 1888
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ART. 97.] KEEPERS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 1441

P. G. L , (1860,) art. 96, sec. 5. 1825, ch 206, sec. 3.

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

Ibid. sec. 6. 1825, ch. 206, sec. 5.

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.

Ibid. sec. 7. 1825, ch. 206, sec. 6.

7. 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 appointed by the county commissioners, of which days
public notice shall be given by advertisements inserted in some
one or more newspapers 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.

Ibid, sec 8. 1835, ch. 206, sec 6.

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 commissioners once in each year, or oftener if required.

Ibid. sec. 9. 1825, ch. 206, sec. 7.

9. If any person shall neglect or refuse to have his beams and
scales, weights and measures, inspected and adjusted as herein
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