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Clement Dorsey. The general public statutory law and public local law of the state of Maryland : from the year 1692 to 1839 inclusive, with annotations thereto,and a copious index.
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INSPECTIONS.

1463

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That the inspector of weights

Case of

in each city and county, shall be an umpire to decide in all

dispute.

cases where a dispute arises as to the weight of a parcel of

 

anthracite or hard coal, and the measurer in each city and

 

county shall be an umpire to decide in all cases where a dispute

Umpire.

shall arise as to the measure of a quantity of bituminous coal,

 

or when a buyer or seller wishes them to weigh or measure, as

 

the case may be, a parcel, in all such cases the said inspector

 

shall receive fifteen cents per ton for every ton he shall weigh,

Inspectors

and the measurer, half cent per bushel for every bushel he shall

compen-
sation.

measure, exclusive of all necessary expense for labour, and the

 

procurement of scales and measures, to be paid in disputed cases

 

by the party in error, and in other cases by the employer..

 

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That hereafter no person or per-

Selling

sons shall retail coal in the city of Baltimore without a suitable

without
scales pro-

scale, approved of by the inspector of weights for said city, and

hibited.

no person or persons shall sell anthracite or hard coal from a

 

vessel, without using a suitable scale, approved as aforesaid.

 

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said inspector and

Penalty for

measurers shall be entitled to receive, demand and recover by

violating.

action at law, in the name of the state for their use, before any

 

single justice of the peace, the aforementioned fees and ex-

 

penses for all weighing and measuring done by them, and if

 

any person shall violate the provisions of this act, he, or they,

 

so offending, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of ten dollars for

 

each and every offence, the sum to be recovered before any

 

justice of the peace, one-half thereof to the use of the informer

 

and the remainder to the state.

 

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the act to provide for the

Act of l836,
ch. 265,

inspection and weight of anthracite or hard coal, and for the

repealed.

measuring of bituminous coal, passed at the December session,

 

eighteen hundred and thirty-six, chapter two hundred and

 

sixty-five, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

 

FISH, SALTED.

 

AN ACT to regulate the Inspection of Salted Fish — 1817, ch. 114.

 

SEC. 1. Be U enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

•Barrels for

That from and after the passage of this act, all barrels, half

pickled fish,
how to be

barrels and tierces, which shall be made or used for the purpose

made.

of packing or containing pickled fish, shall be made of sound

 

well seasoned oak, ash or chestnut staves, of rift timber, not less

 

than half an inch thick, with heading of either of the said kinds

 

of wood, not less than five-eighths of an inch thick, and sound

 

and well seasoned, the said heading to be well planed or shaved,

 

the barrels, half barrels and tierces, to be well hooped, with at

 

least three hoops on each bilge, and three hoops on each chine,

 

all of which shall be good hoops of sufficient substance ; the

 

 

 

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