306 Assembly Proceedings, November 1-December 20, 1765.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

aforesaid, and the Estate therein Limitted to and for the Use and
Benefit of the said Town in as full and ample manner as if they
the said Commissioners had been legally constituted a Body Politick
and corporate in Deed and in name with capacity to Purchase.

[Market
Days es-
tablished
&c]

p. 575

And be it further Enacted by the Authority advice and Consent
aforesaid that from and after the first day of January next two days
in every Week Wednesday and Saturday shall be held as Market
days at the Market House in the Town of Baltimore aforesaid and
that all Victuals and Provisions whatsoever brought to the said
Town for Sale (except Fish and Oysters that shall be brought by
Water All kinds of Grain Flower and Bread Butter in Firkins or
other Vessels exceeding twenty Pounds Nett, and Cheese, Pork by
the Hog, Beef and Pork in Barrells or larger Casks, live Cattle
Sheep and Hogs that Shall be brought either by Land or Water) upon
those or any other days of the Week shall be carried to the Publick
Market House of the said Town there to be Sold at the Stated
Market Hours to Wit from any time in the morning to twelve
at noon

[Market
Hours]

And be it further Enacted that no Inhabitant of the said Town or
other Person shall Presume to buy or Cause to be bought of any
Person or Persons bringing (and within one Mile of the said Town)
or having brought therein any kind of Victuals or Provisions for
Sale (except as before excepted) either upon the above Stated
Market days or any other days of the Week during the time of
the above stated Market hours at any other Place whatsoever but
at or in the aforesaid Market House under the Penalty of twenty
Shillings Current Money of this Province for every Such offence
to be recovered by Warrant before any Justice of the Peace for
Baltimore County or the County where Such Person shall Reside
as in Case of small Debts to be paid to the Clerk of the said Market
for the time being and applied by him to the Uses herein after
mentioned.

[Penalty on
buying
within
Market
Hours out of
Market
House]

And be it further Enacted That no Person whatsoever bringing
or Sending or having brought or Sent any victuals or Provisions to
the said Town for Sale (except as before excepted) Shall presume
to Sell or Cause to be sold the Said Victuals or Provisions, so bring-
ing or Sending or brought or Sent as aforesaid to the said Town
or within one Mile thereof either by Land or Water at any other
place whatsoever during the time of the above Stated Market hours
but at or in the aforesaid Market house under the Penalty of Ten
Shillings Current Money of this Province for every Such offence
to be recovered paid and applied as aforesaid and if any Servant
or Slave shall presume to Sell any Victuals or Provisions contrary
to the true intent and meaning of this Act Such Servant or Slave
shall be punished by whipping on the bare back at the discretion of
one or more Justices of the Peace for Baltimore County provided
Such whipping do not exceed fifteen Lashes for any one offence.