Acts. 237

the Penalty of twenty Shillings Current Money for every such
Offence.

Liber R. G.
1773

And be it enacted That no Person bringing or Sending or
having brought or sent any Victuals or Provisions to the said
Town for Sale (except as before excepted) shall sell or cause to
be sold the said Victuals or Provisions so brought or sent either
by Land or Water to the said Town or within one Mile thereof
at any other Place during Market Hours but at or in the afore-
said Market House under the Penalty of twenty Shillings Current
Money for every such Offence. And if any Servants or Slave shall
sell any Victuals or Provisions contrary to the Directions and
Meaning of this Act such servant or Slave shall be punished by
Whipping on the bare Back at the Discretion of any one Justice
for Baltimore County Provided such Whipping do not exceed
fifteen Lashes for any such Offence.

[Penalty on
Persons
selling Pro-
visions
within one
Mile of
Town.]

And be it enacted That the Commissioners of Baltimore Town
or the Major Part of them for the Time being shall assemble
and meet between the twentieth and the last Day of this Present
December and between the first and the tenth Day of September
Yearly and every Year during the Continuance of this Act and
then nominate and appoint one of the Inhabitants of the said
Town of Baltimore to be Clerk of the said Market for the Year
then next ensuing whose Power and Authority as Clerk shall
continue for and during the Term of one Year.

[Commis-
sioners of
Baltimore-
Town to
choose
yearly a
Clerk of the
Market.]
p. 279

And be it enacted that the Clerk of the said Market shall have
Power and Authority to take the Possession Care and Charge of
the Market and Market House aforesaid during his Continuance
in Office and to inspect all provisions brought thereto for Sale
and to distroy any he shall find and adjudge unsound or un-
wholsome and also to try and adjust the Weights and Measures
used at the said Market by Standards to be provided and kept
there by the Commissioners of the said Town for that Purpose
and the same when false or untrue to seize and dispose of to the
highest Bidder and shall pay the Money arising from such Sale
to the said Commissioners to be by them applied to the Use of

[His Power
and Au-
thority.]

the said town. And the Clerk of the said Market unless prevented
by Sickness or other unavoidable Accident or Necessity shall and
he is hereby required to attend in the said Market from the Hour
of five in the Morning to the Hour of Eight during the Months of
April May June July August September and October and from
the Hour of seven to the Hour of Nine in the Morning during
the Months of November December January February and March.

[Hours of
Attendance.]

And if such Clerk shall neglect or refuse to attend as aforesaid he
shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of twenty
Shillings Current Money to be recovered by the Commissioners of
the said Town for the Time being before any Justice for Baltimore

[Penalty on
Neglect.]