A public weigher, or any deputy weigher, shall receive for his services in weighing any article, the following schedule of fees: ten cents ($0.10) for each load or draft weight separately: Provided, that such public weigher shall not be allowed compensation for any extra weighing which may be essential in determining the net weight of any article or load. The public weigher, or any deputy weigher, shall be allowed and is hereby granted a lien upon any article or product weighed for the fees above mentioned, and such fee shall attach to and follow such article into the hands of the purchaser, and shall not be barred or canceled by any sale or transfer of such article during the day upon which the article is weighed: Provided, that deputy weighers shall be allowed to retain as their compensation the sum of eight cents ($0.08) for each load or draft weighed separately; the residue of the price allowed hereunder shall be paid by the deputies to the county weigher at the close of the month.
Okla. Stat. tit. 28, § 50