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BALTIMORE CITY.

from beef-cattle, and calves, slaughtered in the city of Balti-

more, and purchased therein.

To examine

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That in such inspection it shall

for holes.

be the duty of the inspector, to carefully examine each side of

every hide, and each calf-skin, and ascertain whether the same

is injured or damaged, by reason of any holes, cuts, slashes, or

wounds, it may have received in the process of skinning, or

Provide

from any other cause ; he shall provide proper stamps, and legi-

stamps.

bly stamp the butt of each side of every hide, and each skin,

Stamp
directed.

inspected with the letter or figures G. 1,2, or 3, and so on, as

the judgment of the inspector shall dictate, and as the same

shall, upon such inspection, appear to be more or less injured,

or not injured at all.

Qualities

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That those sides and! skins

defined.

which, upon inspection, shall be found free from injury, shall

be stamped 'G.' and be taken for good, merchantable and prime ;

those injured from the cause aforesaid, five cents, shall be

stamped '1;' those injured ten cents'2;' those injured fifteen

cents '3;' and so on, increasing the number of the stamp one,

for every additional five cents of injury which the side or skin

may have sustained, which sum thus indicated by the number

of the stamp, shall be deducted by the purchaser from the value

of the side or skin so stamped, had the same been good, prime

and merchantable.

Deputy

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the inspector shall appoint,

inspector*

not exceeding two, deputies, who may perform all the duties,

and shall be subject to all the liabilities created, and take the

oath prescribed, by this act.

Fees for

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the said inspector shall

inspecting.

receive for inspecting each hide, four cents, and for each calf-

skin, two cents, and no more, to be paid by the purchasers of

hides and skins.

Notifica-

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of all

tion re-

purchasers of hides and calf-skins, subject to inspection by this

quired.

act, to notify the inspector, of the place at which such hides

and skins will be collected by him from the butchers, and

where he must attend to inspect the same.

Labels con-

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That each purchaser of hides

taining the

and skins, subject to inspection, shall provide himself with a

name of
butcher.

number of labels, containing the name of the butcher from

whom he may purchase, which shall be firmly fastened to each

hide and skin at the time it is received from the butcher, and

remain so fastened until the same is inspected, and an account

of the inspection thereof taken ; and if any person shall wil-

Penalty for

fully remove, obliterate or destroy any such label so attached

removing,
&c.

as aforesaid, with intent to defraud the seller, any butcher or

ether person, he shall, on conviction, be deemed guilty of a