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BALTIMORE CITY.

Coopered.

shall direct it to be coopered, or other casks substituted therefor,

at the expense of the owner or seller, and if any cask containing

domestic liquors submitted to be gauged or inspected, shall be

Forfeit for

found to have been fraudulently made, the owner or seller

fraud.

thereof, or his agent so submitting such cask, shall forfeit the

cask to the use of the state.

Gauging

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That each of the gangers aforesaid,

instruments

shall procure and use a correct set of gauging instruments and

Dycus's hydrometer, which he shall keep in good order; and

as soon as he has ascertained the capacity of any cask, and the

strength of the domestic distilled liquors contained therein, he

Mark of

shall distinctly mark with marking irons the capacity on the

capacity; of
contents j

bilge, near the bung, and prefixing the initial letter of his

standard of

surname, he shall likewise mark the number of gallons of proof

proof spirit;
mark of

spirit contained in said cask on the head thereof, and for this

contents de-
faced under

purpose the standard of proof spirit is hereby fixed at eighty-five

penalty, cer-

degrees of the aforesaid hydrometer, and all marks that shall be

tificate of
quantity.

made by either of the gangers aforesaid, determining the quan-

tity of proof domestic distilled liquors contained in any cask,

shall be defaced thereon so soon as the same shall have been

emptied, under a penalty of five dollars to the use of the in-

former, to be paid by the owner or person having possession of

said cask or casks, and whenever it may be required by the

seller or his agent, the gauger shall give a certificate, specifying

the true quantity of proof domestic distilled liquor contained in

each cask so gauged and inspected at any time by him.

Standard of

SEC, 5. And be it enacted. That said gangers in order to

capacity.

ascertain the capacity of casks, shall conform to the present

Baltimore standard of wine measure, and if any cask or vessel

gauged and marked by either of said gangers, shall in its capa-

city be found lacking or exceeding one or more gallons in

any barrel, or two or more gallons in any cask of a larger size,

the gauger who may have so erroneously marked the same,

Penalty for

shall forfeit and pay two dollars for each and every gallon so

erroneously
marking.

lacking or exceeding the number of gallons marked by him on

such cask, and it shall be the duty of said gauger, whenever

Conform to

the government of the United States shall determine to employ

the hy-
drometer of

a different hydrometer to procure and use hydrometers of the

the United
States.

description which shall then be used by the gaugers of said

government.

Compen-

SEC. 6. And be it enacted. That from and after the passage

sation to

of this act, the several gaugers who shall be appointed in the

gauger.

city of Baltimore, or for any other place in said state, shall be

entitled to claim and receive from the seller or exporter of any

liquors in casks, the following compensation for his services,

that is to say, for gauging casks containing domestic distilled

liquors, if not exceeding forty gallons, six cents and one-fourth