424 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

may be supplied, if desired, and shall furnish to the consumer a
certificate under oath of the true condition and working of said
apparatus or meter; and if it shall be found, upon any such test,
that said apparatus or meter is registering gas in favor of said
company, then, in the absence of any fraud upon the part of the
consumer, the said company shall refund to the consumer an
amount in lawful money equal to the percentage that the said
apparatus or meter has been registering too fast, upon the bills of
said consumer, registered by said apparatus or meter, for the
four months next preceding the said test, unless the said company
can prove that such inspection and certificate do not show the
correct result; and in case such refunding does take place, the
said company shall also pay the expenses incurred in making said
test.

GAUGERS OF CASKS AND LIQUORS.
1873, ch. 264.

437. Any citizen of the State of Maryland, on application to
the clerk of the court of common pleas in the city of Baltimore,
and on paying one hundred dollars to the said clerk, shall be en-
titled to receive a license to act as gauger of casks and liquors, for-
the term of one year from the date thereof. The person apply-
ing for said license shall, at the time of receiving the same, take
and subscribe before said clerk, an oath that he will honestly and
faithfully discharge the duties of said office.

Ibid.

438. No person engaged in vending or trading in or manu-
facturing casks or liquors individually, or as a partner, or as agent,
clerk or employee of a trader, vender or manufacturer of said
articles, or either of them, or any commissioned officer, shall be
licensed to act as gauger of casks and liquids.

Ibid.

439. Any person may sell, export or otherwise disp6se of any
foreign or domestic liquors in casks, without having the same
gauged by a licensed gauger, but in cases of difference between
the buyer and seller as to the quantity, either party may call in a
ganger, and his judgment shall bind the parties.