264 Assembly Proceedings, October 2-November 30, 1771.

Liber R. G.
1771
p. 129

Money provided the true Weight of such Flour upon weighing the
same shall be found only five Pounds under or less than the Weight
so alledged or contained in the Manifest but if the same Flour upon
weighing the same shall be found to fall short of the Weight alledged
or contained in the Manifest more than the Quantity of five Pounds
then & in that Case for every Pound Weight so found under or less
than the Weight alledged or contained in the Manifest the Person
or Persons selling or offering the same Flour for Sale shall forfeit
& pay the Sum of four Shillings Current Money & the Inspector of
Flour is hereby obliged & required upon Request of either the Buyer
or Seller of Flour to weigh any Flour sold or offered for Sale at
any of the Places abovementioned & shall be entitled to demand &
receive for weighing the same of the Person or Persons who upon
weighing the Flour shall be found to have been in Default the Sum
of four Pence Current Money for each Barrel that shall have been
weighed. And if the Manifest made out subscribed & delivered by
any Occupier of a Mill shall exceed the real Gross, Tare & Nett
Weight of the Flour mentioned in the said Manifest, & the Person
owning the same shall incur & be obliged to pay the Penalty or
Penalties aforesaid for short Weight; that then in such Case the
said Owner shall be & is hereby entitled to a Recovery of the said
Penalty or Penalties against the Occupier of the Mill who made out
subscribed & delivered such false Manifest, which Recovery shall be
had in the same Manner, as Penalties are herein directed to be
recovered.
And Whereas the Insufficiency of Flour Casks brought to Balti-
more Town, & the Inequality of the Gauge of the same have been
found detrimental to Commerce for Remedy whereof,

[No flour to
be offered
for Sale, &c.
till packed
in proper
Casks, on
Penalty of
5 s. Cur-
rency.]

Be it enacted, that after the first Day of January next no Person
shall sell or offer for Sale any Flour for Exportation at Baltimore
Town or Fells Point until the same be packed & put into good Sub-
stantial well seasoned Casks of a proper Thickness & well coopered &
the Staves thereof shall be of the Length of twenty eight Inches &
the Headings of eighteen Inches And the Inspector of Flour is
hereby authorized & required to view & Inspect the Cask & if the
same shall be found insufficient or defective either in the Thickness

[Casks of
Flour for
Exportation,
shall be sub-
mitted to
the Inspec-
tor, and if
merchant-
able to be
branded with
the Degree
of Fine-
ness.]
p. 130

& Goodness of the Staves or Heading or Cooperage or in the Gauge
of the same the Person offering such Flour packed into such Cask
for Sale shall forfeit the Sum of five Shillings Current Money for
each Cask found insufficient.
And be it further enacted That all & every Cask of Flour brought
to the said Town or Fells Point, to be from thence laden & shipped
for Exportation shall be submitted to the View & Examination of the
Inspector so as aforesaid nominated & appointed who shall search &
try the same by boring the Head & piercing it through with an In-
strument to be contrived for that Purpose, in Order to prove whether