ART. 1. ] REGISTER OF WILLS—ROADS. 75-

1878, ch. 157.

207. It shall be the duty of every person or body corporate,,
operating a mine or mines in either of said counties, as owner,
lessee or agent, to provide correct and accurate scales for weighing
the coal mined therein before the same shall be taken from the
mine cars used by the miners therein.

Ibid.

208. Any owner, lessee, agent or operator of any coal mine in
said counties of Allegany or Garrett, or any other person therein,
neglecting or refusing to comply with or violating in any manner
any of the provisions of sections 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207
and 209, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon in-
dictment and conviction thereof may be fined for each and every
said offence a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than, five-
hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court.

1878, ch. 871.

209. It shall be lawful, however, notwithstanding the provi-
sions of sections 206 and 207, for any corporation or individual
engaged in mining coal in Allegany and Garrett counties, in this
State, in or by a shaft, to contract with miners to dig the coal
therein or therefrom by measurement; and in all cases where the
wages of the miners are by contract or agreement ascertained by
the cubic yard or other measurement, it shall not be obligatory
upon such corporations or individuals so contracting to provide
scales, or any weighmaster or weighmasters at such shaft, or to
weigh any coal therein or taken therefrom; but the miners' ears
used in any mine worked by a shaft shall be measured by a sworn
measurer, and the capacity of each car shall be stamped or branded
thereon.

REGISTER OF WILLS.
1880, ch. 430.

210. It shall be the duty of the register of wills for said county
to keep an index of all the papers filed in his office and of all pro-
ceedings therein.

ROADS.
1880, ch 286.

211. The county commissioners are authorized and empow-
ered, in the month of April, in every second year, accounting