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part, and to be tight and secured with a sufficient number of good hoops;
if of iron, six; and if of wood, not less than twelve; and at least not less
than twelve on all double barrels and hogsheads; and if any cask contain-
ing such liquor shall be found deficient in any of these respects by said
gauger, he shall direct it to be coopered, or other casks substituted therefor,
at the expense of the owner or seller; and if any such cask shall be fraud-
ulently made, the owner or seller thereof, or his agent, shall forfeit the
cask to the use of the State.

1872, ch. 264, sec. 5. P. L. L. (1888). Art. 4, sec. 441

548. The said gaugers, in order to ascertain the capacity of casks, shall
conform to the Baltimore standard of wine measure; and if any cask or
vessel gauged or marked by said gauger shall in its capacity be found
lacking or exceeding one or more gallons in a cask of a larger size, the
gauger shall forfeit and pay two dollars for each gallon so lacking or
exceeding the number of gallons marked by him on the cask.

1872, ch. 264, sec. 6. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4. sec. 442.

549. If any person shall alter any mark, or number marked or set
down by any gauger, thereby to deceive and defraud the purchaser of
distilled spirits, wine, molasses or other liquid merchandise so gauged
and marked, or shall put any false mark or number on said cask, or upon
any certificate intended to counterfeit the mark or number of the gauger,
he shall forfeit and pay twenty dollars for every offence, one-half to the
informer and the other half to the use of the State.

1872, ch. 264, sec. 7. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 443.

550. Every gauger so licensed shall be entitled to demand and receive
from the person at whose request he shall gauge any cask, the following
fees, to wit: For gauging casks not exceeding forty gallons, ten cents per
cask; for casks of larger size, fifteen cents.

1872, ch. 264, sec. 8. P. L. L. (1888). Art. 4, sec. 444.

551. Any person not being properly licensed, who shall act as gauger,
or being so licensed shall act as said gauger outside the limits of the said
city, shall forfeit and pay to the Sheriff of the city the sum of three
hundred dollars; said penalty to be imposed as a fine by the Criminal
Court, on presentment and indictment by the Grand Jury and conviction
in due course of law, and one-third of the penalty shall be paid by the
Sheriff to the informer, and the residue shall be accounted for by the
Sheriff to the treasury as other fines; if any person so licensed shall be
guilty of a fraud by reason of collusion with any parties, he shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall, on presentment and indictment
therefor, and conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a fine of not less than
five hundred dollars or more than one thousand dollars for every such
offence, or be imprisoned, in the discretion of the court, for a time not
exceeding three years, or both, and shall also be liable in damages at
the suit of the party aggrieved.