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ALLEGANY COUNTY.

the said standard of weights and measures shall remain in the

possession and charge of the said clerk, for the trial and correc-

tion of the several weights and measures belonging to the citi-

zens of the said county, and it shall be the duty of the said

clerk, upon application being made, at his office, to try, correct,

brand, mark and stamp the same by the standard, for which ser-

vices the said clerk shall receive six cents for each weight and

measure or scale-beam by him adjusted, to be paid by the per-

son making the application.

Commis-

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the commissioners in and

sioners may
appoint a

for Allegany county, at their discretion, may or may not, in

keeper.

future, at their annual meetings, appoint a keeper of the stand

ard of weights and measures, who, if appointed, shall lake pos-

session thereof, and perform all the duties that are required of

such keepers by the original act to which this is a supplement,

or so much thereof as the said commissioners may, in their dis-

cretion, deem necessary, for which services the said commis-

sioners may grant such compensation as they may think fit and

Bond.

reasonable, and the said keeper so appointed shall give bond to

the said commissioners in the penal sum of one hundred dol-

lars, conditioned for the safe keeping of said standard of weights

and measures, and the performance of the duties to be required

of him by said commissioners, agreeably to the provisions of

this act, as a supplement to the act of December session,

eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter two hundred and

six, and any thing in the original regulations inconsistent with

Repeal.

this act, is hereby repealed, so far as relates to Allegany county.

WITNESSES.

AN ACT for the better allowance and payment of Witnesses in Allegany

County.— 1833, ch. 102.

Payment

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

prescribed.

That each and every witness that may be summoned to attend

the respective courts that may hereafter be held in and for Alle-

gany county, who may reside more than five miles from the

place of holding the said court, shall in addition to the per dieia

allowed him by law, be entitled to receive as an allowance of

four cents for every mile, excluding the first five miles, that his

place of residence shall be distant from the place of holding the

county court of Allegany county, to be allowed him in going

to the court ; Provided, that the said itinerant charges shall be

allowed to each of said witnesses only for once coming to the

said court, at any one term, to be taxed and allowed and paid

as the per diem is now taxed, allowed and paid, by law.

WOLVES.

See Panthers, fee. ante page 1333.