2096 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. [ART. 97

number shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be
subject to indictment and upon conviction shall be fined not
exceeding one hundred dollars, one-half to the informer and
the other half to the State.

Dry Goods.

1888, art. 97, sec. 24. 1860, art. 94, sec. 23. 1849, ch 94, sec 1.

24. No person shall sell any package or parcel of cotton,
woollen, or other dry goods having any mark thereon or
attached thereto, indicating or stating a greater number of
yards or larger quantity than is actually contained in such
package or parcel; and any auctioneer, commission merchant
or other dealer so selling shall in each case forfeit and pay to
the purchaser of each package or parcel double the value of
the quantity of goods which on actual measurement it shall be
found there is wanting in such package or parcel to make up
the number of yards or quantity marked thereon.

Ibid. sec. 25. 1860, art. 94, sec. 24. 1849, ch 94, sec. 2

25. All sums not exceeding one hundred dollars forfeited
and payable under the preceding section shall be recoverable
by the purchaser before a justice of the peace as other debts,
and all sums exceeding one hundred dollars, by action of debt
in any court having jurisdiction thereof in the city of Baltimore
or county where such sales were made.

Grain.

Ibid. sec. 26. 1868, ch 445

26. All charges for freight, measurement, weighing, inspec-
tion, wharfage and commission on grain shall be made on the
number of bushels as ascertained by weight and not by the
running measure; and any one found guilty of a violation of
this section shall on conviction thereof before a justice 6f the
peace be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars,
one-half to the informer and the other half to the use of the
State; provided that any one feeling himself aggrieved by any
such judgment shall have the right of appeal to the circuit
court for the county or the Baltimore city court, as the case
may be, on giving bond in the usual form to prosecute such
appeal and for the payment of the judgment and costs if such
judgment should be affirmed.