A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE GOVERNOR.

and convenience may seem to require make changes
and alterations, in the arrangement of the pens,
yards, alleys and appurtenances thereof, and may
if he shall deem it necessary for the public accom-
modation, erect additional cattle scales; and may
make such reasonable rules and regulations to
be observed by the owners or other persons pre-
senting live stock to be weighed, in the use of

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said pens, yards, alleys, scales appurtenances, as
to him, may seem expedient; provided, nevertheless,
that no rules or regulations shall be made or be
valid, which shall give any preference or priority
to any owner or other person in the use of said
pens, yards, alleys, scales or appurtenances, or in
the order of weighing the stock, over any other
owner or person, whose stock shall previously have
been brought in to be weighed, and shall have
been duly reported as ready to be weighed; pro-
vided, however, that the designation of the pen or
yard, into which stock shall be put, shall not be
considered as giving any preference or priority; and
provided, also, that the live stock of any kind,
actually belonging to the Government of 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.

Provisos.

469. Whenever, in his judgment, it may be
necessary for the public accommodation to employ
any Clerk, or Assistant Weighmaster, in addition
to the Clerk and Assistant Weighmaster, whom
he is now authorized to appoint, he may with the
approbation of the Comptroller, appoint an addi-
tional Clerk, or additional Weighmaster, or both,
permanently or temporarily, whose compensation
shall be fixed by the said Weighmaster, subject to
the approval of the Comptroller of the State, and
the annual salary of the Clerk, whom the said
Weighmaster is now authorized to appoint, shall,
from and after the first day of May next, be at the
rate of one thousand dollars per annum, and the
salary of the Assistant Weighmaster, whom the
said Weighmaster is now authorized to appoint,
shall, from and after the said last mentioned date,

May appoint
an additional
Clerk, &c.