Acts. 261

Claims for emitting Bills of Credit & for other Purposes therein
mentioned notwithstanding.

Liber R. G.

1771

By the Lower House of
Assembly Nov.^r 12.^th
1771. Read & assented to.
Signed by Order,
Jn.° Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho.

On Behalf of the Right
Honble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I will this be a Law.
Rob.^t Eden.

By the Upper House of
Assembly Nov.^r 16.^t!l
1771. Read & assented to.
Signed by Order,
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

The Great Seal
in Wax appendant

No. 20 An Act to prevent the Exportation of Flour, Staves & Shingles not
merchantable from the Town of Baltimore in Baltimore County,
& to regulate the Weight of Hay & Measure of Grain, Salt, Flax-
Seed & Fire Wood within the said Town & to prevent the Ex-
portation of Flour not merchantable from Fells-Point in the said
County.

Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly that Dis-
coveries have lately been made of certain Deceits practised by
Millers, and others in the Manufacture of Flour, large Quantities
whereof are brought to, & sold, in the said Town of Baltimore, and
Fells Point & from thence exported, & that frequent Disputes, &
false Weight & short Measure happen, as well in the Weight of
Hay, Measure of Grain, Salt & Flax Seed as in the Cording &
measuring of Wood, and Advantages are taken of the Ignorant and
unwary, by the Deceitful Practises of Skippers, Masters of Vessels &
Boats the like whereof also happens in the Selling of Staves &
Shingles as well concerning the Quantity as Quality, and it being
apprehended, that if a Person or Persons were appointed under
proper Powers, Checks and Restrictions, and the Buyers & Sellers,
Inhabitants in & about the said Town were obliged to employ him
or them, to cord all Wood, Garble or Cull & count all Staves &
Shingles to be bought in or about the said Town & to inspect or
determine & by gradated Brand-Marks, distinguish the Qualities
of all Flower by the said Inhabitants or others respectively to be
bought in and about the said Town & Fells Point & to measure by
proper Measures settled & adjusted by the County Standard, all Salt,
Grain & Flax seed that should be brought by Land or Water to, &
sold in the said Town would be of great Service, not only in sup-
porting & assisting the Commerce of the said Town of Baltimore
but also in thwarting & discountenancing dishonorable unmanly and
deceitful Dispositions always injurious to a Community. For the
Encouragement therefore of the said Town & others well disposed
to forward the Trade & Advancement thereof.

[Preamble.]
p. 126

Be it enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by &
with the Advice & Consent of his Lordship's Governor & the Upper
& Lower Houses of Assembly & the Authority of the same; That

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sioners to
appoint an
Inspector of