440 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

the United States, or brought in to be weighed for delivery to the
said government under any then subsisting contract, shall always
be entitled to be weighed in preference and priority to all other
stock belonging to private parties, or which are presented to be
weighed for delivery under private contract.

P: L. L, (1860,) art. 4, sec. 468.

497. He may, upon failure of any agent or owner of live stock
to pay for weighing the same, impound any number of such live
stock he may deem necessary, to pay or cause such fees to be
paid; provided, no injury be done to said stock by confining
them as aforesaid, and that they be delivered to the owner or his
agent upon payment of all just and proper charges.

1880, ch. 446.

498. The lessee of the State cattle yards shall employ and pay
all clerks or assistants of labor, permanently or temporarily, neces-
sary for the weighing of live stock at the State cattle yards and

Ibid.

499. The weighmaster shall receive an annual compensation
of fifteen hundred dollars, which shall be paid quarterly in equal
sums by the lessee of the State cattle yards and scales.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 471.

500. If any weighmaster shall omit or delay to weigh, or
cause to be weighed, any live stock, for a time exceeding twenty-
four hours after he shall have been requested to weigh the same,
he shall forfeit and pay to the owner of such live stock, or his
agent, the sum of ten cents an hour upon each and every head
thereof for so many hours as he shall omit or delay to weigh the
same, over and above the term of twenty-four hours, Sundays
excepted; to be recovered in an action of debt before a justice of
the peace, with costs.

Ibid. sec. 473.

501. If any grazier, drover or other person shall sell or barter
any beef cattle or hogs, brought for slaughter within the corpo-
rate limits of the city of Baltimore, or within five miles of said
limits, which have not been raised or grazed one year within said