Frostburg mining journal., 1882-11-18
N iscellane0us Advertisements.
Weights and Measures.
ARTICLE XXXII-REvISED CODE
OF MARYLAND.

1. The standards for weights and meas
ures in this State, except as Otherp Use pro-
vided in this article, shall be such as are
used Mt 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, anrolnt some
person as keeper of the standsr Is OF
weights and measures, who shall safely
keep and preserve the same, and when re-
huired, deliver them TO tn, county commits
sioners, or to suc'i person as they may ap-
point TO receive the same, and who shall
fperfsrm the several duties prescribed by
this article.
3. The person so appointed shall, before
he enters upon the dut es of his office give
bond to the county commissioners in the
p.nal sum of five hundred dollars. condi.
toned foI the faithful discharge of all the
duties apptrtaining to his office.
4. All weights and measures used in this
State in the vendl g OF articles, shall be
inspected by the said standard keeper for
the county, oEce in every year, under q
penalty not exceeding twenty dollars, TO
be paid iy heperson 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 pa rts of such weights and
measures as in his judgment will be most
lasting and etectual in preventing fraud
ulent practices or impositions in the use
thereof.
s. The weights and measures so exam
ined, branded or stamped, and no other,
shall lc used within q is State in the
vending of such articles asare directed by
law To be or are usually sold by weight ar
measure, under a penalty of twenty dol
lars, and all attic. es 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 sum not
exceeding twenty dollars Tor each offence.
Z. The keepers of standards of weights
and measures shall attend at the diff rent
mark els, towns, and villages, in the c0un-
ty, for which they shall respectively be
appointed, at least once iu each year, and
at the different public inspecting ware
houses in the said counties at least twice
in each year, on some certain days to be
appointed by the ounty commissioners, OF
which days public notice shall be given by
advertisements inserted in some one or
more newsI apcrs 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.
s. 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 adj
justed together with the " Of the month
and year, and the number and descr ption
of the tame go adjusted, which book he
shall submit TO tie inspection of the coun-
ty commissioners once in each year, or
oflener if rqllied.
8. If any person shall neglect or refuse
to have h beams and scales, eights and
measures, inspected and adjusted as herein
dire cted, when required to do SO by the
proper officer, he shall forfeit and pay five
dollars for every day during sucn delin.
queucy.
10 If any standard-keeper shall be IN
formed cr have reason to suspect that any
nerson IS using, or has in his possess ion
with fraudulent intention, any false
beams, scales or measures, he shall exam.
inc the same, and if he find hem, or any
of them, to ho false, he shall seize the
same as a forfeiture and adjust and sell
them ut public auction, AMI shall annually
return statement Of the money received
therefor under oath TO the county COM
missioners.
H. II any weight or measure which
shall have teen branded or stamped as
htren 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 within this
State, such person shall forfeit and pay
twenty dollars for each offence.
10. Each standard keeper sha receive
such con pensatIon TOR the d sclharge of
his duties asthe county commissioners shall
think proper to allow, which shall be
LIVED on The assessahie property Of the
eouL ty snd collected as other county
charges.
13. Wheaeger any standdrd-ksepeT shall
be Applied to, to ndiuSt scaleS, soeights and
measures, by dddihg to or d,natnish ng the
same or 10 adjust scale beams, he shqH be al
l0,red an Qddtti0Rdl reasonable compensation
therefor, to be pd'd By tie party 50 applying
for his sGrpices,
IA. The ne.hali of all fines and forfeit.
ures imposed by the prccedi ing sections
Of tins article shall go 20 the intOrmer, the
other to th. use of lie county, and in all
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