698 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. [ART. 96.

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 letter's M. S. meaning
thereby Maryland Standard, in such manner, and on such parts
of such weights and measures as in his judgment, will be most
lasting and effectual in preventing fraudulent practices or impo-
sitions in the use thereof.

5. The weights and measures so examined, branded or stamped,
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 of twenty dollars, and all
articles sold within this State shall be sold by said weights or .
measures under the like penalty.

6. 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 offence.

7. The keepers of standards of weights and measures shall
attend at the different markets, towns and villages, in the
county, for which they shall respectively be appointed, at least
once in 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 county commissioners, of
which days public notice shall be given by advertisements in-
serted 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 conspicuous place in the said markets, ware-
houses, 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 a book in which he
shall register the names of the persons whose beams and scales,
weights and measures, he has adjusted, together with the day of
the month and year, and the number and description of the
same so adjusted, which book he shall submit to the inspection
of the county commissioners once in each year, or oftener if
required.