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two or more, when necessary, or to take down the elevation of
the elevated walk on the south side of said scales.

468. He may, upon failure of any agent or owner of live
stock to pay for weighing the same, impound any number of
such live stock he may deem necessary to pay or cause such
fees to be paid; Provided, no injury be done to said stock by
confining them as aforesaid, and that they be delivered to
the owner or his agent upon payment of all just and proper
charges. •

469. He may appoint and employ a clerk, at an annual salary
of seven hundred and fifty dollars, and an assistant, who shall
perform such service as said weighmaster in person or through
such clerk may require, at an annual salary of five hundred
dollars.

470. He shall receive an annual salary of twelve liundred
dollars; and the salaries of the weighmaster, his clerk and
assistant, shall be payable monthly out of any moneys received
by the weighmaster for the use of the State.

471. If any weighmaster shall omit or delay to weigh, or
cause to be weighed, any live stock, for a time exceeding twenty-
four hours after he shall have been requested to weigh the
same, he shall forfeit and pay to the owner of such live stock
or his agent the sum of ten cents an hour upon each and every
head thereof for so many hours as he shall omit or delay to
weigh the same over and above the term of twenty-four hours,
Sundays excepted, to be recovered in an action of debt before a
justice of the peace, with costs.

472. If any grazier, drover, or other person shall sell or barter
any beef cattle or hogs brought for slaughter within the corpo-
rate limits of the city of Baltimore, or within five miles of said
limits, which have not been raised or grazed one year within
said limits or within five miles of the same, and which, have not
been weighed by said weighmaster, upon proof and conviction
thereof before any judge or justice of the peace, he shall forfeit
and pay a sum of not less than one nor more than ten dollars for
each and every head of cattle or hogs so sold or bartered, at the
discretion of the judge or justice, and to be recovered by action.
in the name of the State before a justice of the peace or court