236 Assembly Proceedings, November 16-December 23, 1773.

Liber R. G.
1773

of such new County in the same Manner as is before directed for
the Counties aforesaid.

[Continu-
ance.]

This Act to continue till the twenty fifth Day of December
seventeen hundred and seventy four.

By the Lower House of
Assembly Dec.^r 18.^th 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
Jn.^o Duckett Clk. Lo. Ho.

21 1/2 Sides

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

The great Seal
in wax appendant

By the Upper House of
Assembly Dec.^r 18:^th 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
. U. Scott Clk. Up. Ho.

No. 23

p. 278
[Preamble.]

An Act to establish a Market in Baltimore Town in Baltimore
County and to Regulate the said Market.

Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly that the Inhabi-
tants of the said Town have built and erected a large and convenient
Building calculated for a Market House and other Public Uses on
Part of a Lot of Land in the said Town distinguished in the Platt
thereof by the Number seventy one which if put under proper Regu-
lations might be rendered very useful to the Inhabitants of the said
Town and County and it is prayed that an Act may be passed for hold-
ing and Regulating a Market for the said Town —

[The Build-
ing erected
in Balti-
more-Town
to be the
Market-
House, and
Wednesday
and Satur-
day to be
held there
as Market
Days, &c.]

Be it therefore enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his Governor
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority
of the same That the said Building shall be the Market House
of the said Town and from and after the End of this Present
Session of Assembly two Days in every Week to wit Wednesday
and Saturday shall be held as Market Days at the said Market
House and all Victuals and Provisions whatsoever brought either
by Land or Water upon those or any other Days of the Week to
the said Town for Sale (except Fish and Oysters brought by
Water all kinds of Grain Flour Bread Butter in Firkins or other
Vessels exceeding twenty pounds Nett Cheese Pork by the Hog
Beef or Pork in the Barrels or Larger Casks live Cattle Sheep or
Hogs) shall be carried to the Market House of the said Town

[Provisions
brought to
the Town
for Sale to
be sola at
Market
Hours.]
[Penalty
on Persons
buying at
any other
Place than
the Market-
House.]

there to be sold at Market Hours to wit from any time in the
Morning to twelve at Noon.

And be it enacted That no Inhabitant of the said Town or

other Person shall 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 Market Days or
any other Days of the Week during Market Hours at any other
place whatsoever but at or in the aforesaid Market House under