Acts. 271

And Whereas great Quantities of Flour are brought by Water
for Sale at the said Town of Baltimore & Fells Point and it being
very inconvenient to land the same for Inspection.

Liber R. G.
1771

Be it enacted that the Inspector of Flour appointed by this Act
shall & is hereby directed at the Request of any Person who shall
bring above fifty Casks in any one Vessel, to go on Board such
Vessel in the Harbour of the said Town or at Fells Point & inspect
the said Flour on Board under the Penalty of twenty Shillings Cur-
rent Money for every Neglect or Refusal.

And Whereas it may sometimes happen that by Reason of a great
Quantity of Flour being brought at once to Baltimore Town & Fells
Point the Person who shall be appointed Inspector of Flour cannot
alone with sufficient Dispatch inspect & brand all such Flour & as it
is apprehended that the most likely Means to support the Credit
of the Inspection Brand is to make one Inspector answerable.

[Inspector
of Flour to
inspect on
board Ves-
sels if re-
quired on
Penalty.]

Be it enacted that the Person to be by the Commissioners chosen
& appointed Inspector of Flour shall or may on such Occasions only
or in Case of Sickness employ one or more Persons of good Repute &
well qualified for such Service as Assistants to assist him in the Exe-
cution of his said Office & such Assistants after taking the Oaths or
Affirmations herein prescribed to be taken by the Inspector of Flour
are hereby authorized to inspect & brand any Barrells of Flour at
Baltimore Town or Fells Point as the Inspector himself might do.

[Inspector
of Flour may
employ As-
sistants duly
qualified.]

And be it enacted That before any of the said Officers shall enter
upon the Execution of their respective Offices they shall take the
several Oaths or Affirmations appointed by Law to be taken to the
Government & repeat & subscribe the Oath of Abjuration & Test
before some Justice of the Peace.

[Officers to
take the
Oaths &c. to
the Govern-
ment.]

This Act to continue seven Years & unto the End of the next
Session of Assembly which shall happen after the End of the said
seven Years.

[Continu-
ance.]

By the Lower House of
Assembly November 13.^th
1771. Read & assented to.
Signed by Order,
Jno 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.^th
1771. Read & assented to.
Signed by Order.
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

The Great Seal
in Wax appendant

No. 21 An Act continuing an Act entitled an Act for licensing Ordinary
Keepers, Hawkers Pedlars & Petty Chapmen.

p. 137

Be it enacted by the Right Honorable the Lord Proprietary by &
with the Advice & Consent of his Lordship's Governor and the Upper
and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the same,
That an Act of Assembly of this Province entitled an Act for

[An Act for
licensing
Ordinary
Keepers, &c.
continued.]