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64 ARTICLE 1.
P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 127. 1878, ch. 398.
182. If desired by either the vendor or purchaser of said flour, said
inspector shall weigh the same and mark thereon the true weight thereof,
and if he shall find that the same is of less weight than one hundred and
ninety-six pounds, then said barrel of flour shall be forfeited and sold by
the inspector, and the proceeds thereof shall go to the school fund of said
county.
P. L. L. (1888), art 1, sec. 128. 1878, ch. 398.
183. Said inspector shall not purchase directly or indirectly, or be
interested in the purchase or sale of any flour whatsoever, other than for
his own family use, under the penalty of five dollars for every barrel so
purchased by him.
P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 129. 1878, ch. 398.
184. In all cases where such inspector may pronounce a flour barrel
insufficient, the owner of such barrel, or his agent, may either cause the
same to be repaired, or substitute a new one, as the case may require, or
he may make such deduction from the price of the flour as may be mutu-
ally agreed upon between himself and the purchaser thereof.
P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 130. 1878, ch. 398.
185. Said inspector shall be entitled to charge and receive for inspect-
ing, weighing and marking each barrel of flour inspected, marked and
weighed by him, the sum of one and one-half cents for inspecting, and one
cent for weighing each barrel.
P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 131. 1878, ch. 388.
186. If said inspector shall wilfully, knowingly and falsely mark the
quality or weight of any barrel of flour, he shall forfeit and pay the sum
of fifty dollars for every barrel so falsely marked, to be recovered, by
indictment in the Circuit Court for Allegany County, and his bond may
be put in suit by any person or persons injured by any breach of duty
committed by him, and such damages, not exceeding the penalty thereof,
recovered thereon as the plaintiff in such suits may have sustained by his
improper acts.
FROSTBURG.*
P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 132. 1886, ch. 166.
187. The citizens of the town of Frostburg are a body corporate, by the
name of the Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg, and by that name may
*Ch. 88, 1902, amending Charter of Frostburg was held valid in Todd v. Frost-
burg, 141 Md. 693.
Frostburg has been authorized to issue bonds as follows:
1922, ch. 3—$10,000 for fire apparatus;
1927, ch. 74 (amended by 1929, ch. 7)—$36,000 for refunding debt;
1927, ch. 638—$100,000 for refunding debt.
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