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thereto, indicating or stating a greater number of yards or larger
quantity than is actually contained in such package or parcel;
and any auctioneer, commission merchant or other dealer so sell-
ing, shall in each case forfeit and pay to the purchaser of each
package or parcel, double the value of the quantity of goods
which on actual measurement it shall be found there is wanting
in such package or parcel to make up the number of yards or
quantity marked thereon.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 96, sec. 24 1849, ch. 94, sec. 2.

25. All sums not exceeding one hundred dollars forfeited and
payable under the preceding section, shall be recoverable by the
purchaser before a justice of the peace as other debts, and all
sums exceeding one hundred dollars by action of debt in any
court having jurisdiction thereof in the city of Baltimore or
county where such sales were made.

Grain.

1868, ch 445.

26. All charges for freight measurement, weighing, inspection,
wharfage and commission on grain, shall be made on the number
of bushels as ascertained by weight and not by the running meas-
ure ; and any one found guilty of a violation of this section shall,
on conviction thereof before a justice of the peace, be fined not
less than five nor more than fifty dollars, one-half to the informer
and the other half to the use of the State; provided, that any one
feeling himself aggrieved by any such judgment shall have the
right of appeal to the circuit court for the county or the Balti-
more city court, as the case may be, on giving bond in the usual
form to prosecute such appeal, and for the payment of the judg-
ment and costs if such judgment should be affirmed.

Charcoal.

1884, ch. 42.

27. The standard measure of charcoal shall be two thousand
seven hundred and forty-eight cubic inches for each and every
bushel thereof, and when sold by weight, a bushel shall be twenty
pounds (commercially dry.)