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to the Comptroller, it being the intent of this Section that he
shall only receive one thousand dollars per annum as his salary
to be paid entirely from his fees, at eight cents net per load.
The said tomatoes and other vegetables shall be weighed in the
wagons, and after delivery to the purchasers the wagons and
empty boxes shall be returned to the said scales and the weight
thereof shall be deducted from the gross weight as shown by
the first weighing, and the said packers or purchasers shall be
required to pay for said vegetables at the weight certified by
said weigher. In case the boxes, in which the tomatoes or other
vegetables are contained, shall not be returned, said weigher
shall weigh ten empty boxes, and the average weight shall be
established as the weight of all boxes contained in any wagon or
wagons so weighed by him, and any packer or purchaser who
shall refuse to pay for the same according to the certificate of
said weigher shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten dollars, nor
more than fifty dollars for each offense; and any driver of any
wagon who shall sell, dispose of, or barter any of the produce in
his wagon which has been sold to a packer or other purchaser
between the time of the weighing of the same and the delivery
to said packer or purchaser, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined twenty-
five dollars for each offense.

SEC. 28. All fines forfeitures and penalties imposed by the
several Sections of this Article, except as otherwise herein-
before provided, shall be recoverable as now provided by the
laws of the State of Maryland for the recovery of fines, forfeit-
ures and penalties; one-half of said fines, forfeitures and penal-
ties, except as otherwise hereinbefore provided, to be paid to
the informer, and the other half to the City of Baltimore or
the County in which the offense shall have been committed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts, parts of Acts, and
Sections, and parts of Sections, of the Code of Public General
Laws, and the Code of Public Local Laws, now in force in the
State of Maryland, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act,
be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
January 1, 1915.

Approved April 16th, 1914.