ART. 4.] INSPECTIONS, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 439

from day to day, to the lessee of the State cattle yards and scales,
after the lease thereof, as herein provided, and before such lease,
to the State comptroller.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 465.

494. He shall number the pens or yards under his care, used
for receiving live stock, and shall mark in conspicuous places on
the fences or gates thereof, in legible figures, the number of cattle,
hogs or sheep the said pens or yards will respectively contain.

Ibid. sec. 466.

495. He shall, when receiving any live stock for weighing or
exposure for sale, put the same into pens or yards, the nearest in
capacity to contain the respective droves of the different owners
thereof, and shall in no case divide and put portions of the same
drove into different pens or yards, unless such division be actually
necessary for the accommodation of the same, or to effect a divi-
sion of such droves among the different owners thereof.

1864, ch. 328.

496. He may, from time to time, as experience may suggest,
and as the public accommodation and convenience may seem to
require, make changes and alterations in the arrangement of the
pens, yards, alleys and appurtenances thereof; and may, if he shall
deem it necessary for the public accommodation, erect additional
cattle scales; and may make such reasonable rules and regulations
to be observed by the owners or other, persons presenting live
stock to be weighed, in the use of said pens, yards, alleys, scales
or appurtenances, as to him may seem expedient; provided, never-
theless, that no rules or regulations shall be made or be valid
which shall give any preference or priority to any owner or other
person in the use of said pens, yards, alleys, scales or appurte-
nances, or in the order of weighing the stock, over any other owner
or person whose stock shall previously have been brought in to be
weighed, and shall have been duly reported as ready to be
weighed; provided, however, that the designation of the pen or
yard into which stock shall be put, shall not be considered as
giving any preference or priority; and provided also, that the
live stock of any kind actually belonging to the government of