900 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. [ART. 97
or measure. Any person, firm, or corporation, or agent, employe, or
officer, of any person, firm, or corporation, violating any of the pro-
visions of this Section shall be fined not more than twenty dollars for
each offense.
1914, ch. 802.
6." The inspectors of weights and measures for the several Counties
of the State 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 warehouses in said
Counties at least twice in each year, on some certain days to be
appointed by the County .Commissioners of which thirty days' public
notice shall be given by advertisement inserted in some one or more
newspapers in the Counties in which there may be such paper printed,
and also by advertisement set up at some conspicuous place in the said
markets, warehouses, villages and towns, and shall inspect and adjust
all beams and scales, weights and measures, used or intended to be used
in said County; provided that such inspection and adjustment of all
beams, scales, weights and measures in Baltimore City shall be made
at the times and in the manner as is now or may hereafter be provided
by the Mayor and City Council of said city. '
1914, ch. 802.
7. Each inspector of weights and measures shall keep a record in
book form, in which he shall register the names of the persons whose
beams and scales, weights and measures he has adjusted, also the
names of the manufacturers or persons for whom sample packages have
been measured, together with the day of the month and year, and num-
ber and description of the same so adjusted or measured, which he
shall submit to the inspection of the County Commissioners of the
County for which he is appointed, or the Comptroller of Baltimore
City if appointed for said city, once in each year or oftener if required.
It shall also be the duty of the inspector or inspectors of standards of
weights and measures to examine all sample packages submitted to
them for measurement, and if the submitted package or packages are
found to be in conformity with the standard of measurements as pro-
vided for by this article, the said inspector or inspectors are to issue a
certificate to the party or parties submitting the sample package setting
forth this fact, which certificate is to be sufficient authority for the
manufacturer of such packages to manufacture and to sell the same.
1914, ch. 802.
8. If any person, firm or corporation, or agent, employe, or officer,
of any person, firm or corporation shall refuse or neglect to have his,
her, their or its beams or scales, weights and measures inspected and
adjusted as directed in this Article when required to do so by the
proper officer, he, she, they, or it, shall be fined five dollars for every
day during such delinquency.
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