636 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 15

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED :

Strike out all after the words, "Be it enacted" in section
1, and insert the following, viz :

That the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, be and the
same is hereby appropriated, or as much thereof as may be
necessary for the rebuilding of the Hay Scales, and the build-
ing connected therewith, owned by the State of Maryland,
and situate in the Eastern section of the city of Baltimore,
near the intersection of O'Donnell street, with the Western
line of Baltimore county, and to alter and adapt said scales to
the weighing of live stock, as well as hay and straw; and to
erect such enclosures as may be necessary for the safe keeping
of lire stock.

"Sec. 2. And. be it further enacted. That Edwin Walters,
be and he is hereby appointed Commissioner on behalf of the
State, to superintend the repairs and alterations provided for
in the preceeding section, and the Comptroller be and he is
hereby authorized and required to issue his warrant on the
Treasurer, for such sum of money to be paid to the said
Commissioner as he may in writing certify to be necessary
for such purposes, not exceeding however, the sum of twenty-
five hundred dollars! said Commissioner to give bond with
approved security to the State, to be taken and approved by
the Comptroller in the sum of three thousand dollars, for the
faithful preformance of his duties, and the application of the
funds which may come into his hands to the purposes enume-
rated in this Act, and said Commissioner shall be entitled to
receive three per cent, on the amount of the monies, disburs-
ed by him in accbrdance with this Act.

"Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the inspector of hay and straw, having charge of the Eastern
hay scales at Canton in the city of Baltimore, to weigh all
cattle and hogs required by law to be weighed, which may be
brought to said scales, for that purpose, and the said inspector
shall be entitled to demand and receive, for the use of the
State for the first time of weighing any live stock except
sheep required by law to be weighed, two cents for every
hundred weight, and one cent per head for every sheep, and
for every second and subsequent weighing for cattle and hogs
two cents for every thousand weight, and sheep one cent, for
every thousand weight and all live stock not required to be
weighed, the sum of six cents for every thousand weight.

"Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That he shall keep a full re-
cord of all weights as ascertained and determined by him, of
what, and for whom the same may be ascertained and deter-
mined and all money by him received for weighing live stock,
and all expenditures, and disbursements, in books to be pro-
vided by him for that purpose, which books, shall belong to