PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1473

tue of the powers conferred by the Charter of said City; and
said inspectors shall safely keep and preserve said standards
of weights and measures in and for the City of Baltimore, and,
when required, deliver them to said Comptroller, or to such
persons as he may appoint to receive the same; and they shall
perform the several duties prescribed by this Article in and
for the territory for which they have been appointed.

SEC. 4. Each person so appointed for the several Counties
and the City of Baltimore, before entering upon the duties of
his office, shall give bond to the County Commissioners of the
County for which he is appointed or to the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore City if appointed for said city, in the
penal sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned 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 inspectors, and when adjusted shall be by said
inspectors stamped or branded with letters "Md S.," meaning
thereby "Maryland Standard," together with the figures that
will indicate the year of inspection, in such manner and on such
parts of said weights and measures as shall be most lasting and
effectual in preventing and detecting fraudulent 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 stamped or branded thereon; provided that such
inspection and stamping or branding, as set out in this Section,
shall be done in the City of Baltimore at such times and in the
manner as is now, or may hereafter be provided by the Mayor
and City Council of said city. 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.
Any person, firm, or corporation, or agent, employe, or officer,
of any person, firm, or corporation, violating any of the pro-
visions of this Section shall be fined not more than twenty dol-
lars for each offense.

SEC. 6. The inspectors of weights and measures for the
several Counties of the State shall attend at the different mar-
kets, toAvns and villages, in the County for which they shall
respectively be appointed at least once in each year, and at
the different public inspecting warehouses in said Counties
at least twice in each year, on some certain days to be ap-