244 ALLEGANY COUNTY. [ART. 1.

the repairs of said road, and also of the various items
of expenditures upon the same, accompanied by the
vouchers of said expenditures.

In force and approved March 7,1868.

SHERIFF.

1868, c. 108 repeals and re-enacts section 259 as follows :

1868, c. 108 Fifty cents per day.	159. He shall be entitled to fifty cents per day for each prisoner committed to the jail of said county, and one dollar for each prisoner brought out to court and returned to jail, and the following sums for taking
Convicts to penitentiary.	convicts to the penitentiary, to wit : when a single convict is taken, forty-five dollars; when two together, thirty dollars each; when more than two twenty-five dollars each, to be levied as other county charges. In force and approved March 7, 1868. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

1868, c. 256 repeals and re-enacts sections 170,171 and 172, to read as follows :

1869, c. 250. Keeper and in- spector.	170. The county commissioners of Allegany county shall annually appoint a keeper and inspector of weights and measures, whose duty it shall be to try and inspect the weights and measures used by all merchants and persons, bodies politic or corporate, in weighing or measuring any article of merchandise, coal or produce
Compensation.	for sale, who shall receive as compensation for the ser- vices to be performed by him, the sum of five hundred dollars, annually to be levied and paid by the county commissioners as now provided by law.
Standard weights and measures.	171. Said county commissioners shall procure for the use of such keeper and inspector, standard weights and measures, such as are used at the custom house, in Baltimore city, at the expense of the county, and they
Levy.	are hereby authorized to levy on the assessable pro-