ART. 97] WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 809

1914, ch. 802.

2. The County Commissioners of each County, shall, on or before
the first day of May in each year, appoint some person, or persons, as
inspector or inspectors of standards of weights and measures, who shall
safely keep and preserve the same, and, when required, deliver them to
said County Commissioners, or to such persons as they may appoint
to receive the same; and who shall perform the duties as prescribed by
this article in the territory for which they have been appointed.

1914, ch. 802.

3. The Comptroller of Baltimore City shall appoint such number
of inspectors of standards of weights and measures as may be required
for said city, said appointment to be made in the way and manner now,
or that may hereafter be, adopted by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore under and by virtue of the powers conferred by the Charter
of said city; and said inspectors shall safely keep and preserve said
standards of weights and measures in and for the City of Baltimore,
and, when required, deliver them to said Comptroller, or to such per-
sons as he may appoint to receive the same; and they shall perform the
several duties prescribed by this Article in and for the territory for
which they have been appointed.

1914, ch. 802.

4. Each person so appointed for the several Counties and the City
of Baltimore, before entering upon the duties of his office shall give
bond to the County Commissioners of the County for which he is
appointed or to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City if
appointed for said city, in the penal sum of five hundred .dollars, con-
ditioned for the faithful discharge of all the duties appertaining to
his office.

1914, ch. S02.

5. All weights and measures used within this State in the vending
of Articles, shall be inspected and stamped or branded by said inspec-
tors, and when adjusted shall be by said inspectors stamped or branded
with letters "Md. S.," meaning thereby "Maryland Standard," together
with the figures that will indicate the year of inspection, in such man-
ner and on such parts of said weights and measures as shall be most
lasting and effectual in preventing and detecting fraudulent practices
or impositions in the use of such weights and measures; and the like
inspection shall be repeated once in every year, and the year of inspec-
tion stamped or branded thereon; provided that such inspection and
stamping or branding, as set out in this Section, shall be done in the
City of Baltimore at such times and in the manner as is now, or may
hereafter be provided by the Mayor and City Council of said city.
Such weights and measures so examined and stamped or branded as
aforesaid, and no other, shall be used in this State in the vending of
such articles as are directed by law to be, or arc usually sold by weight