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weighing one thousand pounds and under six thousand, fifty 

 cents ; for a platform scale weighing six hundred pounds and 

 under one thousand, twenty-five cents ; for one weighing less 

 than six hundred, ten cents ; for any other scale or steelyard 

 that weighs with a poise, five cents ; for each dry measure 

 and for all other weights, measures, scales or beams, three 

 cents each ; and a reasonable compensation for all repairs, 

 alterations and adjustments necessaiy to make the same con- 

 formable to the town standard. 



MERIDIAN LINES. 

 Revised Statutes of 1871, Chapter 42, 



Sec. 12. The county commissioners, at the expense of 

 their county, within two years from the eleventh day, of 

 March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and within 

 six months after the formation of a new county, shall erect, 

 m their counties, on land owned by the county or for that 

 purpose acquired by them, at such place or places as the 

 public convenience requires, a true meridian line, to be per- 

 petuated by stone pillars with brass or copper points firmly 

 fixed on the tops thereof, indicating the true range of such 

 meridian ; and shall enclose and protect the same, and pro- 

 vide a book of records to be kept by the clerk of the courts, 

 or by a person appointed by them nearer to such structure, 

 and accessible to all persons wishing to refer thereto. 



Sec. 13. Such structures shall be under the care and 

 custody of the clerk of the courts ; and any surveyor or civil 

 engineer residing in said county or engaged in surveying 

 therein, shall have free access thereto for the purpose of 

 testing the variation of the compass. 



Sec. 14. Every land surveyor shall, at least annually, 

 adjust and verify his compass by the meridian line so estab- 

 lished in the county where his surveys are to be made, and 

 shall enter the variation thereof from the true meridian line 

 in the book mentioned in section twelve, and subscribe his 

 name thereto for future reference ; and shall also insert in his 

 field notes, the true as well as magnetic bearings of the lines 



