Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1882-11-04
Weights and Measures.
ARTICLE XXXII-REVISED CODE
OF MARYLAND.

/. 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.
2. The county commissioners of each
county shall, except where otherwise di-
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.
quired, deliver them to the county commits.
sioners, or to such person as they may ap-
point to receive the same, and who shall
perfsrm the several duties prescribed by
this article.
3. The person so appointed shall, before
he enters upon the duties of 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 appcrtaining to his Office.
4. All weights and measures used in this
State in the vendi,g OF articles, shall be
inspected by the said standard keeper for
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 M. 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 edectual in preventing fraud
ulent practices or impositions in the use
thereof.
g. The weights and measures so exam
ined, branded or stamped. and no other,
shal. tc used within this State in the
vending of such articles as are directed by
law to be OF 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.
6. All scale. beams used in the vending
of articles in this State shall he inspected
and stamped by the keeper of the stand
ards 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
:. The keepers of standards of weights
and measures shall attend at the diff, rent
markets, towns, and villages, in the coun-
ty, for which they shall respectively be
appointed, ut least once in each year, and
at the different public inspecting waic-
houses in the said counties Mt 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 conspic-
uous place in the SAID 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 III which he shall register the
names of the persons whose beams and
scales, weights and measures, he has ad-
iusted, together with the day of the month
and year, and the number and descr ption
of the came 60 adjusted, which book he
shall submit to the inspection of the coun-
ty commissioners once in each year, or
oftener if required.
8. 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 standard-keeper shall be in
formed or have reason to suspect that any
person is using, or has in his possession
with u fraudulent intention, any false
beams, scales or measures, he shall exam.
inc the same, and if he find them, or any
of them, to be false, he shall seize the
same as forfeiture, and adjust and sell
them at public auction, and shall annually
return II statement of the money received
therefor under oath to the county COM
missioners.
H. II 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 there
after in the use OF any person With n this
State, such person shall forfeit and pay
twenty dollars for each offence.
12. Each standard keeper sha receive
such con. pensation Tor the discharge Of
his duties asthe county commissioners shall
think proper to allow, which shall be
levied on the assessable property Of the
equity and collected as other county
charges.
10. HWSHoUtT UHy otuHuWu-heeptF "tut
DO applied to, to adjust scaIes, aOeights and
measures, By aiding to or dimtntsh ag the
same, or TO adjust soak. beams, no sLat be al
0,ged an additional reasonable compensation
therefor, to be paid By the party so applying
for lis serUices.
IA. The one-half of all fines and forfeit.
ures imposed by the preceding sections
of this article shall 60 to the informer, the
other to the use of the county, and in all
suits therefor, the informer shall be COM
petent witness.
15. 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 mer q handise as a business.