Commissioners
to meet,
&c.
 
 
 
 
 
 

And qualify,
&c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Inspector to
qualify, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Parts of an act
extended, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Duration.
 

    VI.   And be it enacted, That the said commissioners of the town of Havre-de-Grace,
or the major part of them, shall meet at some convenient place within
said town between the fifteenth and thirtieth day of March next, and between
the same days yearly and every year thereafter, during the continuance of this
act, and then nominate and appoint a person of good repute, and skilled in the
goodness, quality and well curing of salted beef, pork, and fish of every kind,
to be inspector of salted provisions within the said port for the year ensuing.

    VII.   And be it enacted, That every commissioner who shall vote for the said
officer, before he shall proceed to the nomination and appointment of said officer,
shall take the following oath, or affirmation if a quaker, before some justice of
the peace in Harford county:  " I, A. B. do swear, (or affirm,) that I will
" faithfully, honestly and impartially, nominate and appoint such person to be
" inspector of salted provisions within the said port of Havre-de-Grace as I think
" in my judgment and conscience is fit and capable of executing the said office;"
and in case of the death, refusal or neglect to act of the said person so appointed
inspector of salted provisions, his vacancy shall be filled up in the manner and
as is herein before directed and provided in the case of the inspector of flour.

    VIII.   And be it enacted, That every inspector of salted provisions who shall
be nominated and appointed as aforesaid, before his executing any of the duties
of said office, shall qualify, by taking the oath, or making the affirmation, prescribed
and directed by the fourteenth section of the act passed at November
session, seventeen hundred and eighty-six, entitled, An act for the inspection of
salted provisions exported and imported from and to the town of Baltimore, and
also the several oaths or affirmations to government appointed by law; and the
said inspector of salted provisions, appointed in virtue of this act, shall have the
same allowance as by the aforesaid act is provided for the inspector of salted provisions
within the town of Baltimore.

    IX.   And be it enacted, That all and singular the sections, clauses and provisions,
contained in the aforesaid act, entitled, An act for the inspection of salted
provisions exported and imported from and to the town of Baltimore, be and
they are hereby extended to the port of Havre-de-Grace, and to the regulation
of the inspection of salted provisions within the said port, in as full and ample a
manner as if the same had been herein particularly specified and mentioned.

    X.   And be it enacted, That this act be and continue in force for and during
the term of five years, and until the end of the next session of assembly which
shall happen thereafter.

Alms and
work-house
to be erected,
&c.

    II.   Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That there shall be
an alms and work-house erected and built in said county of Washington, at a
convenient place therein, at the general charge and expence of the said county;
and that the justices of the said county for the time being shall and they are
hereby authorised and empowered to assess and levy, in equal proportion on the
assessable property within the said county, at their next levy court, the sum of