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for weighing hemps, cable, anchors, dye-woods, barks, etc.,
two cents per hundred pounds; and for inspecting and weigh-
ing corn in the ear and corn husks, one cent per hundred
pounds.

557. If any person bringing hay or straw to said City shall
neglect to have the same weighed by the said inspector, or shall
be detected in having stones, rubbish, wood or anything else
concealed in his load, or shall in any manner change the condi-
tion of his cart, wagon, carriage or sled, with fraudulent inten-
tion, he shall forfeit and pay for each and every such offence
the sum of five dollars; provided, however, any person bringing
hay or straw to market, who shall sell and deliver the same for
consumption west of Gwynn's Falls, shall not be subject to the
penalty herein recited as to not haying said load of hay or
straw weighed by the weighmaster at the western hay scales,
provided he shall tender to the weigher of hay and straw, at
the western hay scales, on the day of delivery of said hay or
straw, such fee as is prescribed by law, said fee to be ascertained
by the certificate of the person weighing said hay or straw;
and when said certificate of private weigher is presented to the
weighmaster of hay and straw at the western hay scales, the said
weighmaster shall retain the certificate of the private weigher,
and issue to the person presenting the certificate from the pri-
vate weigher, a certificate from the book of the weighmaster at
the western hay scales corresponding with the certificate of the
private weigher, for which the weighmaster at the western hay
scales shall collect the fee prescribed by law; any seller of hay
or straw failing to comply With the provisions of this section or
failing to present the certificate of the private weigher to the
weighmaster at the western hay scales, shall be subject to a
fine of five dollars for each and every such offence.

558. That any private weigher, who shall under a false cer-
tificate, and any seller of hay or straw who shall present a false
certificate to the weigher of hay and straw at the western hay
scales, shall be subject to a fine of five dollars and costs for each
and every such offence.

559. If any person, after having his hay or straw weighed,
and having obtained the inspector's certificate, specifying the