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true condition and working of said apparatus, or meter; and if it shall
be found, upon any such test, that said apparatus or meter is registering
gas in favor of said company, then, in the absence of any fraud upon the
part of the consumer, the said company shall refund to the consumer an
amount in lawful money equal to the precentage that the said apparatus
or meter has been registering too fast, upon the bills of said consumer,
registered by said apparatus or meter, for the four months next preceding
the said test, unless the said company can prove that such inspection and
certificate do not show the correct result; and in case such refunding does
take place, the said company shall also pay the expenses incurred in mak-
ing said test.

GAUGERS OF CASKS AND LIQUORS.

1872, ch. 264, sec. 1. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4. sec. 437.

544. Any citizen of the State of Maryland, on application to the Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas in the City of Baltimore, and on paying
one hundred dollars to the said clerk, shall be entitled to receive a license
to act as gauger of casks and liquors, for the term of one year from the
date thereof. The person applying for said license shall, at the time of
receiving the same, take and subscribe before said clerk, an oath that he
will honestly and faithfully discharge the duties of said office.

1872, ch. 264, sec. 2. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 438.

545. No person engaged in vending or trading in or manufacturing
casks or liquors individually, or as a partner, or as agent, clerk or em-
ployee of a trader, vender or manufacturer of said articles, or either of
them, or any commissioned officer, shall be licensed to act as gauger of
casks and liquids.

1872, ch. 264, sec. 3. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 439.

546. Any person may sell, export or otherwise dispose of any foreign
or domestic liquors in casks, without having the same gauged by a licensed
gauger, but in cases of difference between the buyer and seller as to the
quantity, either party may call in a gauger, and his judgment shall bind
the parties.

1872, ch. 264, sec. 4. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 440.

547. The gangers shall procure and use a correct set of gauging instru-
ments, and as soon as they have ascertained the capacity of any cask they
shall distinctly mark with marking irons the capacity on the bilge near
the bung, and prefix the letter M., for the State of Maryland, and the
first letter of the surname of the gauger who does the gauging; and any
cask containing such liquor, to be merchantable, must be round at the
bilge and heads, the staves thereof to be seasoned white oak, free from any
injurious portion of sapwood, and not less than half an inch thick at the
thinnest part, and not more than three-quarters of an inch at the thickest