CHAP.
LXXXV.

Court to have
the sole power,
&c.
 
 
 

Mayor to give
bond, &c.
 
 
 
 

Book to be de-
livered, &c.
 
 
 

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1800.

No appraiser to 
be summoned.
 
 
 

* 1789, ch. 26.
 

Sum to be paid, 
&c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Part of an act
repealed.
* 1795, ch. 71.

Justices to li-
cense a ware-
house, &c.
 
 
 
 

And nominate
persons, &c.
 
 
 

as ordinary-keepers and retailers of spirituous liquors within the jurisdiction of the corporation, to 
pay, for the use of the corporation, a sum not exceeding five dollars.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor's court of the corporation of George-town shall have
the sole and exclusive power of granting ordinary and retailers licences within the jurisdiction of the
corporation, and the person or persons obtaining such licence shall, at the time of receiving the same,
pay to the mayor of the corporation the same sum as is now directed by law to be paid for such li-
cence for the use of the state, and such further sum, for the use of the corporation, as the corpora-
tion may direct by their by-laws as herein before empowered.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor of the corporation of George-town for the time being
shall enter into bond, with security, to the state of Maryland, conditioned, that he shall well and
truly pay over to the treasurer of the western shore all sums of money by him received for the use of 
the state for ordinary and retailers licences, in the same manner and at the same time as the clerks of
the several county courts are by law directed, which bond shall be lodged with the clerk of the gene-
ral court of the western shore.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk of Montgomery county court be and he is hereby di-
rected to deliver to the order of the mayor of the corporation of George-town, the book now depo-
sited in his office containing the plan of George-town, and that the same be deposited with the clerk
of the mayor's court of the corporation of George-town.

                                          CHAP. LXXXVI.
An ACT to restrain sheriffs and others from summoning appraisers
   in certain cases.    Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 352.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from and oafter the first day of May next,
no sheriff or constable shall summon any appraiser or appraisers, on his laying a writ or writs of
fieri facias issued by or under the authority of any justice of the peace in this state on the property,
real or personal, of any debtor, or on any supersedeas on such judgment.

                                 CHAP. LXXXVII.
An additional supplement to an act, * entitled, An act to regulate the
    inspection of tobacco.    Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 353.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That for every hogshead of tobaccor inspected
after the passage of this act at the warehouse at Elk-Ridge Landing, in Anne-Arundel county,
and at Emerson's warehouse, in Talbot county, and at the several warehouses now established in
Charles and Saint-Mary's counties, or hereafter to be established, there shall be paid to the inspector
or inspectors delivering the same the sum of seven shillings and six-pence current money, in order
to defray the inspectors salaries and warehouse rent; and for every hogshead of tobacco inspected at
any of the warehouses aforesaid, the justices of the levy court of the counties aforesaid, or a major-
rity of them, shall allow the proprietor of the warehouse a sum not exceeding five shillings, nor less
than two shillings.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the fifth section of a further additional supplement *
to an act, entitled, An act to regulate the inspection of tobacco, as is inconsistent with the provisions
herein contained, be and the same is hereby repealed.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of the levy court of Baltimore county, or a majority
of them, are hereby authorised and empowered to license the erection of an additional warehouse,
for the inspection of tobacco in the city of Baltimore, at the head of the bason, in the neighbour-
hood of the warehouse belonging to Adrian Valck, and that the proprietor or proprietors of the 
warehouse so to be erected shall receive at the rate of one dollar on each hogshead of tobacco therein
inspected, as a compensation for the expence of erecting and keeping in repair said warehouse, and
in lieu of rent, to be paid before such hogshead shall be removed.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of the levy court of said county, or a majority of
them, shall, when the said warehouse is erected and fit to receive tobacoo, nominate and recommend
to the governor and council three persons, of whom the governor, with the advice of the council,
shall appoint and commission one, to be inspector of said warehouse, in the manner directed by the
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