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Sec. 4. The treasurers of towns, at the ex^Dense thereof, 

 shall constantly keep a town seal, and, as town standards, a 

 complete set of beams, weights, and copper and pewter 

 measures, conformable to the state standards, except that the 

 bushel measure, and the half bushel, peck and half peck 

 measures may be of wood instead of copper or pewter, but of 

 the same dimensions, and except also a nest of troy weights 

 other than those from the lowest denomination to eis^ht 

 ounces ; they shall cause all beams, weights and measures, 

 belonging to their towns, to be proved and sealed by the 

 state or county standards once in ten years, computing from 

 July first, eighteen hundred and forty ; and for every neglect 

 of duty aforesaid they shall forfeit one hundred dollars, half 

 to the use of the town, and half to the use of the person suing 

 therefor. 



Sec. 5. The municipal officers of each town shall annually 

 appoint a sealer of weights and measures therein, removable 

 at pleasure, and have power to fill any vacancy that occurs ; 

 and for each month's neglect of this duty, they shall severally 

 forfeit ten dollars to be appropriated as in the preceding 

 section. Any city may purchase and keep for use scales for 

 weighing hay and other articles, appoint weighers and fix 

 their fees, to be paid by the purchaser. 



Sec. 6. If any person, so appointed and notified thereof, 

 refuses for seven days to accept the office and be sworn, he 

 shall forfeit five dollars, to be appropriated as in section four ; 

 but when sworn, he shall receive the standards and seal from 

 the treasurer, giving a receipt therefor, describing them and 

 their condition, and therein engaging to re-deliver them at 

 the expiration of his office in like good order ; and he shall 

 be accountable for their due preservation while in his posses- 

 sion. 



Sec. 7. Every such sealer shall annually, in the month of 



May, post notices in difierent parts of his town stating the 



times and places, at which he will attend to the proof and 



sealing of weights and measures ; shall deface or destroy all. 



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