Payment of informers.
Section 182
SEC. 182. Payment of informers.—Any person, except an internal-revenue agent or officer or other public official engaged in sealing or inspecting weights and measures who voluntarily gives information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone violating the provisions in this Act relative to weights and measures shall be rewarded in the sum of twenty pesos or in the sum of one hundred pesos if the person convicted is a public officer or employee concerned with the sealing or inspecting of weights and measures. The informer shall be ascertained and stated in the judgment of the court and the reward paid shall be a charge against the funds of the province in which the arrest and conviction is had and the municipality concerned, in the proportion in which the weights and measures fees accrue to each, but to prevent delay in payment the province' shall initially pay the entire amount and subsequently secure reimbursement of the municipality's share.