92 QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY. [ART. 17.

district number five, two justices of the peace and one constable;
and the commissioners for Queen Anne's county are hereby
authorized and directed to appoint a person to serve as constable,
to fill the vacancy created by this act, until the next regular
election for said officers.

In force from March 7,1864.

Chapter 135 adds the following Section:

5. Whenever a justice of the peace, for said county, shall issue
a summons for a defendant residing in a different election dis-
trict from the justice issuing the summons, he shall transmit the
papers, in said cause, to some one justice of the peace in the

district where the defendant resides, who shall try the same.

In force from March 1, 1864.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

Chapter 120 repeals Sections 157,158, and enacts the following

6. The county commissioners for Queen Anne's county, shall
annually, in the month of April, appoint one judicious, discreet
citizen of said county, as keeper of standard of weights and
measures for said county, whose duty it shall be, after giving at
least fourteen days notice in some newspaper published in said
county of the times and places; attend at all towns and villages
of said county, with the weights and measures, and try all the
scales, beams, weights and measures, and condemn such as are
deficient, and stamp such as are correct, used in buying or sell-
ing by any person or firm; and all scales, beams, steel-yards, or
any other instrument used by any person or firms, or skippers;
either in buying, selling or weighing gram, that may be taken
in any granary where grain is received for shipping; and it is
hereby made the duty of every person or firm engaged either in
buying, selling, or receiving grain for shipment, to meet the
standard keeper at some one of the places named, with all the
steel-yards, scales, beams, and weights used by him or them, and
have them tried and stamped.