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such person has obtained a certificate and has been duly regis-
tered as provided by chapter 491 of the Acts of 1898.

434. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions
of the preceding section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof in any court having criminal jurisdic-
tion shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars or be
confined in the Baltimore county jail not more than one
month, in the discretion of the court. The provisions of this
and the preceding section shall not interfere with the right of
the owners of horses to have them shod at their own shops.

435. The keeper of the standards of weights and measures in
Baltimore county, State of Maryland, shall receive five cents
for each weight and measure, and ten cents for each scale-
beam tried and branded, stamped and marked by him, to be
paid by the person for whom the service may be performed.

436. The person appointed as keeper of the standards of
weights and measures in Baltimore county, before entering
upon the duties of his office, shall give bond to the County
Commissioners of said county in the penal sum of one thou-
sand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of all the
duties appertaining to his office.

437. The keeper of the standards of weights and meas-
ures in said county shall keep a book, in which he shall regis-
ter the names and postoffice address of the persons whosp
beams and scales, weights and measures he has adjusted,
stamped or branded, together with the day of the month and
year he shall have performed such inspection, and the amount
of fees or moneys he shall have collected from each and
every person or firm for said inspections or fines imposed and
collected (article 97 of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland), said list of names and amount of moneys collected
from each person or firm to be advertised in the annual state-
ment of the Commissioners of said county.

438. The keeper of the standards of weights and meas-
ures (or inspector) shall return said books of registry, and all
moneys collected from the inspection of weights and measures,
or fines imposed and collected, to the Commissioners of said
county, on or before the first day of October of each and every
year, and shall receive a salary, not to exceed (including trav-
eling; expenses) five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may
be derived from said inspection fees, any excess to be paid
into the treasury for the benefit of the public schools of said
county.