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SEC. 3. The County Commissioners of each county shall,
on or before the first day of May in each year, appoint some
person as keeper of standards of weights and measures, who
shall safely keep and preserve the same, and, when required,
deliver them to the County Commissioners, or to such persons
as they may appoint to receive the same, and who shall perform
the several duties prescribed by this Article.

SEC. 4. The person so appointed, before entering upon the
duties of his office, shall give bond to the County Commis-
sioners in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, conditional
for the faithful discharge of all the duties appertaining to his
office.

SEC. 5. All weights and measures used within this State in
the vending of articles, shall be inspected and stamped, or
branded by said standard keepers, and when adjused, shall be
by the said standard keepers branded with the letters Md. S.,
meaning thereby Maryland Standard, together with figures
that will indicate the year of inspection, in such manner und
on such parts of the said weights and measures as shall be
most lasting and effectual in preventing and detecting fraudu-
lent practices or impositions in the use of such weights and
measures; and the like inspection shall be repeated once in
every year and the year of inspection branded or stamped
thereon; such weights and measures so examined and stamped
or branded as aforesaid, and no other shall be used in this State
in the vending of such articles as are directed by law to be or
are usually sold by weight or measure, under a penalty not
exceeding twenty dollars.

SEC. 6. The keeper of standards of weights and measures
shall attend to the different market towns and villages in the
county for which they shall respectively bo appointed, at least
once in each year and at the different public inspecting ware-
houses in the said counties at least twice in each year on some
certain days to be appointed by the County Commissioners,
of which days public notice shall be given by a<l vertisement
inserted in some one or more newspapers in the counties in
which there may be such paper printed, and also by adver-
tisement set up at some conspicuous place in the said markets,
warehouses, villages and towns, and shall inspect and adjust
all beams and scales, weights and measures, used or intended
to be used in said county.

SEC. 7. Each keeper of standards shall keep in book form,
in which he shall register the names of the persons whose beams
and scales, weights and measures he has adjusted, together
with the day of the month and year, and number and descrip-
tion of the same so adjusted, which book he shall submit