850 TALBOT COUNTY. [ART. 20.

and victuals brought thereto for sale; may examine and. try the
weight of any butter brought to said market in prints or parcels,
and if the same shall be found wanting in weight, shall seize and
appropriate the same, and if any be found unsound or unwhole-
some, shall seize and destroy the same; he shall also try and
adjust the scales, weights and measures used at the market by
the standard of the county, and if any be false or untrue, shall
seize the same, and after they are adjusted, shall sell them to the
highest bidder, and account for the money arising from the sale
with the said commissioners.

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71. The market house and stalls, shambles, issues and appurte-
nances thereof, are vested in the commissioners.of Easton for the
use and benefit of the inhabitants of said town; and the clerk
of the market may rent out the stalls and shambles thereof, and
keep an account of the persons renting and the profits arising
therefrom, and render duplicates of such accounts to the commis-
sioners annually on the first of April, or oftener if required, and
the rents shall be paid to the order of the commissioners and
applied to the repair and support of said market houses.

72. The rents of said stalls and shambles may be recovered in
the name of the said commissioners before any justice of the
peace in the same manner as small debts.

73. The said commissioners shall annually, on the first Monday
of April, appoint two persons to be jointly or severally weighers
of hay and the corders of firewood that shall be bought and sold

•within the limits of said town; and if both or either of the persons
appointed shall die, resign, or refuse to act, or be removed from
office, the said commissioners shall fill the vacancy for the re-
mainder of the" year.

74. Each person appointed under the preceding section shall,
before he acts, make oath before the said commissioners that he
will, when required, well and truly, according to the best of his
skill and judgment, weigh hay and cord firewood, without favor,
prejudice or partiality either to the buyer or seller, and that he

•will Dot, directly or indirectly, ask, exact or receive any other or
greater fee or reward for doing such duty than allowed by law;

and the taking of such oath shall be entered on the proceedings
of the commissioners.