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1832,

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP 101.

CHAPTER 101.

Passed Mar. 15, 1835

A supplement to the act, entitled, An act for regulating
and inspecting Weights and Measures of this State, passed
at December Session, eighteen hundred and twenty-five,
chapter two hundred and six.

Standard of
weights to be de-

posited

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act, the
standard of Weights and Measures, now in the possession
of the keeper of the same in and for Allegany county, shall
be deposited under the direction and charge of the Clerk
of the Commissioners of the said county; and the said keep-
er is hereby required to deliver the same to the said Clerk

Duty of clerk.

of the County Commissioners aforesaid, within ninety days
from the passage of this act; and the said standard of
Weights and Measures shall remain in the possession and
charge of the said Clerk, for the trial and correction of the
several weights and measures belonging to the citizens 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 person making the application.

Commissioners

mauy appoint a
keeper.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners in
and for Allegany county, at their discretion, may or may
not, in future, at their annual meetings, appoint a keeper of
the standard of Weights and Measures, which if appointed,
shall take possession thereof, and perform all the duties
that are required of such keepers by the original act to
which this is a supplements or so much therefores the said
Commissioners may, in their discretion, deem necessary;
for which services the said commissioners may, grant such
compensation as they may think fit and reasonable, and the

Bond.

said keeper so appointed said give bomd to the said Com-
missioners in the penal sum of one hundred dollars, condi-
tioned for the safe keeping of said standard of Weights
and Measures, and the performance of the duties to be re-
quired of him by said Commissioners, agreeably to the pro-
visions of this act, as a supplement to the act of December

Repeal

session, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter two
hundred and six, and any thing in the original regulations
inconsistent with this act, is hereby repealed, so far as re-
lates to Allegany county.



 
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