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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 are
usually sold by weight or measure, firm or corporation or agent, employee
or officer of any person, firm or corporation; and any person violating any
one of the provisions of this section shall be liable to indictment in any
Court in this State having criminal jurisdiction, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, in the discretion of the
Court, for the first offense, and if convicted a second time for a violation
of this section, the person or persons so offending shall be fined not more
than one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned for not more than thirty days,
in the discretion of the Court, and his, her or their license, if any was issued
for the business he, she or they are engaged in, shall be declared null and
void by the Judge of said Court; and it shall not be lawful for such person
or persons to obtain another license for the period of twelve months from
the time of such conviction, nor shall a license be obtained by any other
person or persons to carry on said business on the premises or elsewhere,
if the person, so as aforesaid convicted, has any interest whatever therein,
or shall derive any profit whatever therefrom; and in case of being convicted
more than twice for a violation of this section, such person or persons on
each occasion shall be imprisoned for not more than sixty days, and fined
not more than double that imposed on such person or persons on the last
preceding conviction; and his, her or their license, if any was issued, may
be declared null and void by the Court, and no new license shall be issued
to such person or persons for a period of two years from the time of such
conviction, nor to any one else to carry on said business wherein he or
she is in anywise interested, as before provided for the second violation of
the provisions of this section.1

An. Code, sec. 6. 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 adver-
tisement 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.

An. Code, sec. 7. 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

1 Sec. 2 of act of 1916, ch. 529, provides for the repeal of all acts and parts of acts in-
consistent with said act of 1916.