EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1103

CHAPTER 529.

AN ACT to repeal section 5 of Article 97 of the Annotated.
Code of the Public Laws of Maryland, title "Weights and
Measures, " as enacted by Chapter 802 of the Acts of 1914
and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section 5 of Article 97 of the Annotated Code
of the Public Laws of Maryland, title "Weights and Measures, "
as enacted by Chapter 802 of the Acts of 1914, be and the
same is hereby, repealed and re-enacted with amendments so
as to read as follows:

Section 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 last
ing and effectual in preventing and detecting fraudulent prac-
tices 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; pro-
vided 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, firm or corporation or agent,
employee or officer of any person, firm or corporation; and any
person violating any one of the provisions of this section shall
be liable to indictment in any Court in this State having crim-
inal jurisdiction, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not
more than fifty dollars, in the discretion of the Court, for the
first offense, and if convicted a second time for a violation of
this section, the person or persons so offending shall be fined
not more than one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned for not
more than thirty days, in the discretion of the Court, and his,
her or their license, if any was issued for the business he, she
or they are engaged in, shall be declared null and void by the
Judge of said Court; and it shall not be lawful for such person
or persons to obtain another license for the period of twelve