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BALTIMORE CITY.

gauger of wine, rum, molasses, and other liquid merchandises,

in the town aforesaid, by the commissioners of Baltimore town

aforesaid, for the time being, or the major part of them, which

commissioners or the major part of them, are hereby empowered

to appoint such gauger, and him remove and another in his stead

appoint, the said gauger (before he enters upon his said office,

having taken an oath, or affirmation if a quaker, well and truly

to execute the office of gauger in said town between buyer and

seller,) is hereby empowered by himself, or his proper deputy or

assistant, to gauge all such rum, wine, molasses, or other liquid

merchandise, imported, brought, or put in any butt, tun, pipe,

hogshead, barrel, or other cask, in the said town, when he the

said gauger, or his deputy, shall be thereunto required; and

that they shall mark and set down the true number of gallons,

according to the English standard and excise of wine measure,

which each cask or vessel will truly contain, with their own

mark; all which casks, with their true marks and numbers,

and owners' names, shall be entered in a book or books to be

kept for that purpose by the said gauger, or his proper deputy,

to which recourse may be had as occasion may require ; for a

copy of which entry they shall receive three-pence common

money, and for each cask so by them gauged and marked they

shall receive the sum of four-pence common money, and no

more ; and if any cask or other vessel, gauged and marked by

the said gauger, or his lawful deputy, shall be found lacking

one or more gallons of the quantity numbered or marked on

the said cask or vessel, the aforesaid gauger shall forfeit eight

shillings current money for each gallon lacking or exceeding

the number or mark so set down on each cask.

Penalties,

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all and every the

how to be
recovered,

penalties and forfeitures in and by this act set and appointed,

&c.

shall be applied, one-half toward defraying the county charge,

and the other half to the informer, or him or them that will sue

or warrant for the same, if the said penalties do not exceed

fifty shillings current money, to be recovered before one justice

of the peace as in case of small debts, and if above fifty shil-

lings, to be sued for and recovered in any court of record within

this province.

Duration.

SEC. 6. This act to continue three years, and to the end of

the next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter.

Continued by the annual continuing laws.

AN ACT to regulate the Gauging ol Casks and the Inspection of Domestic

Distilled Liquors in this State.— 1827, ch 181.

Governor
and council

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

to appoint

That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty

gaugers
annually.

of the goveinor and council to appoint annually, not less than