ART. 21.] EASTON. . 1863

P. L. L, (1860,) art. 20, sec. 69.

81. If any person shall put any horse, mare or gelding into
or under the said market-house, he shall forfeit the sum of seventy-
five cents.

Ibid sec. 70.

82. The clerk of the market shall take charge of the market-
house and the market, and examine and inspect the provisions
and victuals brought thereto for sale; may examine and try the
weight of butter brought to said market in prints and parcels,
and if the same shall be found wanting in weight, shall seize and
appropriate the same, and if any be found unsound or unwhole-
some, shall seize and destroy the same; he shall also try and ad-
just the scales, weights and measures used at the market by the
standard of the county, and if any be false or untrue, shall seize
the same, and after they are adjusted, shall sell them to the high-
est bidder, and account for the money arising from the sale to
the said commissioners.

Ibid, sec 71.

83. The market-house and stalls, shambles, issues and appur-
tenances thereof, are vested in the commissioners of Easton for
the use and benefit of the inhabitants of said town; and the clerk
of the market may rent out the stalls and shambles thereof, and
keep an account of the persons renting and the profits arising
therefrom, and render duplicates of such accounts to the commis-
sioners, annually, on the first day of April, or oftener if required,
and the rents shall be paid to the order of the commissioners and
applied to the repair and support of said market-houses.

Ibid. sec. 73.

84. The rents of said stalls and shambles may be recovered in
the name of the said commissioners before any justice of the,
peace, in the same manner as small debts.

Ibid. sec. 73.

85. The said commissioners, on the first Monday of April,
shall annually appoint two persons to be jointly or severally
weighers of hay and the corders of firewood that shall be bought