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BALTIMORE CITY.

in the name of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, the

one-half thereof to the said mayor and city council of Balti-

more, for the use of the city, and the other half thereof to the

use of the informer.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to fix and regulate the

Quality of Silver Plate Manufactured and Sold, or offered for Sale, in

the City of Baltimore, and for other purposes. — 1814, ch. 106.

Assayer

may mark
any silver
vet-el, &c.
brought to
him.

SEC. I. Be it enacted, by the General Asembly of Maryland,
That it shall and may be lawful for the assayer appointed under
the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, to assay,
mark or stamp, any silver vessel or vessels, plate or manufac-
ture of silver whatsoever, over the weight of five pennyweights,

which shall be brought to him to be assayed, marked or

Provisos.

stamped, within ten days after the passage of this act; Pro-

vided^ that the maker or owner thereof shall produce to the

assayer aforesaid, a certificate, under oath, duly administered,

specifying the weight of each article, and the number thereof,

and that the said silver vessel or vessels, plate or manufacture

of silver, was or were manufactured in the city of Baltimore, or

precincts thereof, previous to the first day of August, eighteen

hundred and fourteen; And provided also, that the said silver

vessel or vessels, plate or manufacture of silver, shall be re-

spectively stamped with the initials of the name of the worker

or maker thereof.

Number of

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the stamp which shall be

stamp to
correspond

used by the assayer for the marking or stamping of the silver

with weight

vessel or vessels, plate, or manufacture of silver as aforesaid,

shall be numbers corresponding with the number of ounces,

pennyweights and grains, of pure silver, contained in such

articles to every pound troy.

Silver
vessels, &c.
so marked,
may be sold

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the silver vessel or vessels,
plate or manufacture of silver, so assayed, marked or stamped,
may be sold, exchanged, or offered or exposed to sale or ex-

change, in the city and precincts of Baltimore, any thing con-

tained in the act to which this is a supplement, to the contrary

notwithstanding.

Assayer's
fees.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the assayer aforesaid shall
be entitled to ask, demand and receive, for his own use, of and

from the person or persons whose property is required to be as-

sayed and marked, or stamped as aforesaid, the same compen-

sation as is provided for by the sixth section of the act to which

this is a supplement.

Penalty for
counterfeit-
ing stamps.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That if any person whatsoever,
from and after the passage of this act, shall cast, forge or coun-
terfeit, or cause or procure to be cast, forged or counterfeited,

the stamps or marks directed to be used in pursuance of this