608 SAINT MARY'S COUNTY. [ART. 18.

Penalty for any unlawful scales, &c.

162. Any person or firm who shall use any scale, beam, steel-yard, or any other instrument, in viola- tion of the foregoing sections, shall, on conviction, before any justice of the peace, having competent jurisdiction, or before the circuit court, for each offence be fined not less than five, nor more than one hundred dollars, in the discretion of the justice or the court, one-half to the informer and the residue to the county. In force from March 4, 1804.

ARTICLE XVIII.

Saint Mary's County.

ALMSHOUSE 2G. Mileage to trustees levy. CHARLOTTE HALL. 27. No liquor to be sold, &c, to minors without order from parent when unlawful to sell, &c., liquor penalty. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 38 Governor to appoint additional justice.

SCHOOLS. 118 Trustees to procure sites for schools 119. May condemn sites. 120. Proceedings in cases of condemna- tion. 121 Bight of appeal by land owner. 122. Damages, how paid.

	ALMSHOUSE. 1887, c. 260 enacts the following:
1807, c. 260. Mileage to trustees.	SEC. 26. Each trustee of the almshouse in Saint Mary's county, shall be entitled to mileage, at the rate of five cents a mile on all distances not exceed- ing twenty miles from his residence to the almshouse computed by the shortest public road for every day he shall necessarily attend to the duties of his office.
Levy.	The county commissioners of said county are hereby authorized and required to levy a sum of money on the taxable property of said county sufficient to pay the same. In force from, March 13, 1867.