232* CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART.4»

417. If any person, after having his hay or straw weighed and
having obtained the inspector's certificate, specifying the quantity
thereof, shall dispose of any part thereof, or in any manner
diminish the same in quantity, thereby to defraud or deceive
the purchaser thereof, he shall forfeit and pay for every such
offenc* the sum of twenty dollars.

418. The said inspectors may re-weigh carts, wagons, carriages
or sleds as often as they may deem expedient, and if at any time
either of them shall be required to do so by a purchaser of hay
or straw, and it shall be found that his report of the weight of
the cart, wagon, carriage or sled is correct, the person requiring
the same shall pay twenty cents to said inspector; in other cases
the re-weighing shall be free of charge.

419. The said inspectors shall at all times -when required
weigh hemp cables, anchors, dye woods, bark, roots, et cetera.

420. T)ne of the scales or apparatus for weighing shall be
placed in the western section of the city and the other in the
eastern, but the Governor may upon petition change the location
of the same whenever and as often as he may deem proper, at
the expense of the State.

421. The weighing apparatus shall be adjusted at least once
in six months by the standard of weights for the city of Balti-
more, the expense of which, together with all the expense for
repairs, shall be paid by the inspectors.

422. They shall be entitled to retain for their services two-
thirds of all the moneys received by them, and shall account
for under oath, and pay over to the Treasurer quarterly, the
remaining one-third.

423. All fines and forfeitures imposed by this law may be
recovered with costs in the name of the State before a justice of
the peace in the manner that small debts are recovered, one-half
to the informer and the other half to the use of the State.

LEATHER.

424. Any free white citizen of the State of Maryland, on
application to the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in Balti-
more, and on paying to said clerk the sum of one hundred and