1474 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

pointed by the County Commissioners of which thirty days'
public notice shall be given by advertisement inserted in some
one or more newspapers in the Counties in which there may be
such paper printed, and also by advertisement 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;
provided that such inspection and adjustment of all beams,
scales, weights and measures in Baltimore City shall be made
at the times and in the manner as is now or may hereafter be
provided by the Mayor and City Council of said city.

SEC. 7. Each inspector of weights and measures shall keep
a record in book form, in which he shall register the names of
the persons whose beams and scales, weights and measures he
has adjusted, also the names of the manufacturers or persons
for whom sample packages have been measurer, together with
the day of the month and year, and number and description of
the same so adjusted or measured, which he shall submit to the
inspection of the County Commissioners of the County for
which he is appointed, or the Comptroller of Baltimore City if
appointed for said city, once in each year or oftener if required.
It shall also be the duty of the inspector or inspectors of
standards of weights and measures to examine all sample pack-
ages submitted to them for measurement, and if the submitted
package or packages are found to be in conformity with the
standard of measurements as provided for by this Act, the said
inspector or inspectors are to issue a certificate to the party or
parties submitting the sample package setting forth this fact,
which certificate is to be sufficient authority for the manufac-
turer of such packages to manufacture and to sell the same.

SEC. 8. If any person, firm or corporation, or agent, em-
ploye, or officer, of any person, firm or corporation shall refuse
or neglect to have his, her, their or its beams or scales, weights
and measures inspected and adjusted as directed in this Article
when required to do so by the proper officer, he, she, they, or
it, shall be fined five dollars for every day during such delin-
quency.

SEC. 9. If any inspector shall be informed or has reason to
suspect that any person, firm or corporation is using, or has in
his, her, their or its possession with fraudulent intention any
false beams or scales, or weights, or measures, he shall examine
the same, and if he finds them, or any of them to be false he