426 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

1878. ch. 264.

443. Every gauger so licensed shall be entitled to demand
and receive from the person at whose request he shall gauge any
cask the following fees, to wit: for gauging casks not exceeding
forty gallons, ten cents per cask; for casks of larger size, fifteen
cents.

Ibid.

444. Any person not being properly licensed, who shall act
as gauger, or being so licensed shall act as said gauger outside of
the limits of the said city, shall forfeit and pay to the sheriff of
the city the sum of three hundred dollars; said penalty to be
imposed as a fine by the criminal court, on presentment and
indictment by the grand jury and conviction in due course of
law, and one-third of the penalty shall be paid by the sheriff to
the informer, and the residue shall be accounted for by the
sheriff to the treasury as other fines; if any person so licensed
shall be guilty of a fraud by reason of collusion with any parties,
he shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall, on present-
ment and indictment therefor, and conviction thereof, forfeit and
pay a fine of not less than five hundred dollars or more than one
thousand dollars for every such offence, or be imprisoned, in the
discretion of the court, for a time not exceeding three years, or
both, and shall also be liable in damages at the suit of the party
aggrieved.

GRAIN.
1872, ch. 244.

445. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of
the senate, shall biennially appoint one weigher-general and five
assistant weighers of grain in and for the city of Baltimore, who
shall hold their office for the period of two years from the first
Monday in May next ensuing their appointment and qualification,
and until their successors are duly qualified.

Ibid.

446. Every weigher of grain appointed under the provisions,
of the preceding section, before he proceeds to act as such, shall,
under a penalty of five hundred dollars, take and subscribe the
following oath, in addition to the oath required by the consti-