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directed, when required to do so by the proper officer, he shall
forfeit and pay five dollars for every day during such delinquency.

P. G L , (1860,) art. 96, sec. 10. 1825, ch. 206, secs. 7-8.

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.

Ibid. sec. 11. 1825, ch. 206, sec. 4.

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.

Ibid. sec. 12 1825, ch 206, sec. 9.

12. 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.

Ibid. sec. 13. 1825, ch. 206, sec. 10.

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

Ibid. sec. 14. 1825, ch. 206, sec. 11.

14. The one-half of all fines and forfeitures imposed by the
preceding sections of this article shall go to the informer, the
other to the use of the county.