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Dec. Ses. 1825. |
JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
by this act, and before they shall enter upon the duties of their
appointment, they shall each give bond to the levy court of the
county for which they, or any of them may be appointed, in the
penal sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful
discharge of all the duties appertaining to their office. |
All weights
and measures
to be annually
inspected and
branded— |
3. And be it enacted, That all weights
and measures used
within the several counties of this state, in the vending of articles,
shall be inspected and stamped or branded by the said
standard-keeper for the county, under a penalty, not exceeding
twenty dollars, to be paid by the person or persons owning or
using the same; and when adjusted, shall be by the standard-keepers
branded, marked or stamped with the letters, M. S.
meaning thereby, Maryland Standard, in such manner, and on
such parts of the said weights and measures as in their judgment
shall be most lasting and affectual in preventing and detecting
fraudulent practices or imposition in the use of such
weights or measures, and the like inspection shall be repeated
once in every year, and the branding or stamping renewed when
necessary, and such weights and measures so examined and
branded or stamped as aforesaid, and no other shall be 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 a
penalty, not exceeding twenty dollars; and all articles sold within
this state, and usually sold by weight or measure, or by law
directed so to be, shall be sold by weight or measure aforesaid,
as the case may be, under a penalty, not exceeding twenty
dollars. |
Penalty for
altering. |
4. And be it enacted, That if any weight
or measure which
shall have been branded or stamped agreeably to the provisions
of this act, shall be broken, injured, altered or changed, or condemned
by the standard keeper, and found thereafter in the use
of any person within this state, every such person shall forfeit
and pay twenty dollars for each and ever such offence. |
| Scale beams. |
5. And be it enacted, That all scale-beams
used in the vending
of articles in this state, shall be inspected and stamped by
the keeper of the standards 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 and every offence. |
Keeper to attend
—advertisement
required
—register.
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6. And be it enacted, That the keepers
of the standards of
weights and measures shall attend at the different markets, towns
and villages, in the county for which they may be respectively
appointed, at least once in each and every year, and at the different
public inspecting warehouses in each and every county, for
which they may be respectively appointed, at least twice in each
and every year, on some certain days to be appointed by the
respective Levy courts, of which days, public notice shall be
given by advertisements inserted in some one or more newspapers
in the county in which there may be such paper or papers
printed, and also by advertisements set up at some conspicuous
place in the said markets, warehouses, villages and towns, and |
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