INSPECTIONS.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That the inspector of weights
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Case of
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in each city and county, shall be an umpire to decide in all
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dispute.
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cases where a dispute arises as to the weight of a parcel of
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anthracite or hard coal, and the measurer in each city and
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county shall be an umpire to decide in all cases where a dispute
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Umpire.
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shall arise as to the measure of a quantity of bituminous coal,
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or when a buyer or seller wishes them to weigh or measure, as
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the case may be, a parcel, in all such cases the said inspector
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shall receive fifteen cents per ton for every ton he shall weigh,
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Inspectors
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and the measurer, half cent per bushel for every bushel he shall
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compen-
sation.
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measure, exclusive of all necessary expense for labour, and the
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procurement of scales and measures, to be paid in disputed cases
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by the party in error, and in other cases by the employer..
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SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That hereafter no person or per-
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Selling
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sons shall retail coal in the city of Baltimore without a suitable
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without
scales pro-
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scale, approved of by the inspector of weights for said city, and
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hibited.
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no person or persons shall sell anthracite or hard coal from a
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vessel, without using a suitable scale, approved as aforesaid.
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SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said inspector and
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Penalty for
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measurers shall be entitled to receive, demand and recover by
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violating.
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action at law, in the name of the state for their use, before any
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single justice of the peace, the aforementioned fees and ex-
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penses for all weighing and measuring done by them, and if
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any person shall violate the provisions of this act, he, or they,
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so offending, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of ten dollars for
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each and every offence, the sum to be recovered before any
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justice of the peace, one-half thereof to the use of the informer
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and the remainder to the state.
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SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the act to provide for the
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Act of l836,
ch. 265,
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inspection and weight of anthracite or hard coal, and for the
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repealed.
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measuring of bituminous coal, passed at the December session,
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eighteen hundred and thirty-six, chapter two hundred and
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sixty-five, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
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FISH, SALTED.
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AN ACT to regulate the Inspection of Salted Fish — 1817, ch. 114.
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SEC. 1. Be U enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
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•Barrels for
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That from and after the passage of this act, all barrels, half
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pickled fish,
how to be
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barrels and tierces, which shall be made or used for the purpose
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made.
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of packing or containing pickled fish, shall be made of sound
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well seasoned oak, ash or chestnut staves, of rift timber, not less
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than half an inch thick, with heading of either of the said kinds
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of wood, not less than five-eighths of an inch thick, and sound
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and well seasoned, the said heading to be well planed or shaved,
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the barrels, half barrels and tierces, to be well hooped, with at
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least three hoops on each bilge, and three hoops on each chine,
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all of which shall be good hoops of sufficient substance ; the
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