53 Pa. Stat. § 16771
It shall be the duty of the several courts of common pleas, within the city and counties aforesaid, to appoint one or more suitable persons in each of said counties, as to them shall appear necessary, whose duty it shall be, after being for that purpose duly sworn or affirmed, by a judge, alderman or justice of the peace, of the city or proper county, and a certificate of such qualification, filed in the prothonotary's office, to procure a brand and mark every bushel, intended to be used for the measuring of lime, with the letters L.B., in the manner that weights and measures are now stamped or marked in the city of Philadelphia; for which service he shall be entitled to receive twenty-five cents for each bushel so stamped or marked.
53 P.S. § 16771