Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1882-08-05
PAUL'S OPERA HOUSE
STORE ROOMS,
AND
DO0MS on Cd floor suitable for Offices
III Applyto THOS. II. PAUL,
Mar II Frostburg, Md.
Weights and Me asures.
ARTICLE XXXII-REVISED CODE
OF MARYLAND.

Ot MAN lJAND'
/. The standards for weights and meas
ures in this State, except as otherwise pro-
vided in this article, shall be such as are
used at the custOm.house in the city of
Baltimore.
9. The county commissioners of each
county shall, except where otherwise d.
rected by local law, on or before the first
day of May in each year, appoint some
person as keeper of the standards OF
weights and measures, who shall safely
keep and preserve the same, and when re-
quircd, deliver them to the county commits
sioners, or to such person rs they may APP
point to receive the same, and who shall
perform the several duties prescribed by
this article.
3. The person so appointed shall, before
he enters upon the duties his office give
bond to the county commissioners in the
penal sum of five hundred dollars condi-
toned for the faithful discharge of all the
duties appertaining to his office.
A. All weights and measures used in this
State in the vendiGg OF articles, shall be
inspected by the said standard keeper Tor
the county, orce in every year, under
penalty not exceeding twenty dollars, TO
be paid by the person owning or using the
same, and when adjusted, shall be by the
standard keeper branded, marked, or
stamped with the letters Nj. S., meaning
thereby Maryland Standard, in such man
ner and on such parts of such weights and
measures as in his judgment will be most
lasting and eiectual in preventing fraud
ulent practices or impositions in the use
thereof
5. The weights and measures so exam
ined, branded or stamped, ana no other,
shall he 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 penalty of twenty dol
lars, and all articles sold within this State
shall be sold by said weights and measures
under the like penalty.
@. All scale, beams used in the vending
of articles in this State shall be inspected
and stamped by the keeper of the stand
ards Of weights, as weights are directed to
be strmp;;,, and any person using SCALE
beams in this State not stamped as herein
directed, shall forfeit and pay sum not
eXceC ding twenty dollars for each offence.
Z. The keepers of standards of weights
and mcasul Shall attend at the diff, rent
markets, towns, and villages, in the coun-
ty, for which they shall respectively be
appointed, at least once in each year, and
at the different public inspecting ware
houses in the said counties Mt least twice
in each year, on some certain days to be
appointed by the , inty 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 advertisement set up at some consplc-
uous place in the sad markets, wa; ehouses,
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.
8. Each keeper of standards shall keep
q book IN which he shall register the
names OF the persons Whose beams and
scales, weights ana measures, lie has ad-
justed, together with the day Of the month
and year, and the number and descr ption
of the same so adjusted which book he
shall submit 10 the inspection Of the coun-
ty commissioners oGcc in each year, or
oltener if rcqrred.
0. If any person shall neglect or refuse
to have his beams and scales, weights and
measures, inspected and adjusted as herein
directed, when required TO do so by the
proper officer, he shall forfeit and pay five
dollars for every day during such delin-
quency.
10. If any standarl-keeper shall be in
formed or have reason TO suspect that any
person is using, or has N his possession
with fraudulent intentio l. any false
beams, scales or Ieasures, he Shall exam
inc the same, and if he find .hcm, or any
of them, 70 be false, he shall seize the
same as forfeiture, and adjust and sell
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return statement of the money received
the elor under oath 10 the county COM
miSsiopers.
II. II any weight or measure which
shall have Eeen branCed or stamped as
herein required, shall be broken, injured,
altered or chlnged, or condemned by the
standard. keeper, and shall be found there
after in tie use oil any person with tins
State, such person shall forfeit and pay
twenty dollars for each offence.
10. Each standard-keepcr sha receive
such CONDENSATION Tor the discharge OF
his dutiesast county commissioners shall
think proper TO allow, which shall be
levied on the assessable property OF the
county und collected as other county
charges. .,
49, Wh0ne0er any Standard-bsepr shat
DO applied 10, 10 ADJUST scales, lreigdtS ant
measures, By adding to or diwlnish ng me
same, or to adjust scdl0.beaRls, he sbq8 DO AZ
lcioed an additional reasonable compensation
therefor, to be paid by tie .Idrty 50 IMPLYING
for his services.
Ia. 1ne one-half of all fines aud forfeit-
ures imposed by the preced ing sections
of this article shall go to the intorlnei, the
other to the use of The county, and in ull
suits therefor, the inlormer shall be com
potent witness.
IS. Nothing contained in the preceding
sections of this article shall apply TO the
CITY of Baltimore, or to any private house.
keeper not IN trade or pursuing some kind
of merchandise as business.
July1