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ject to a fine of one hundred dollars for each and every such

offence.

Removea.-

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the gangers who shall be

ble at
pleasure.

appointed in virtue of this act, may be removed from office at

the pleasure of the governor and council, and that no other

Penalty for

person than a gauger so appointed, shall gauge or inspect

gauging
without ap-

liquid merchandise within the city of Baltimore, or any other

pointments.

place for any buyer, seller or shipper thereof under a penalty of

five dollars for every offence, to be forfeited and paid, one-half

to the use of the informer, and the other half to the use of the

Exceptions.

ptate, save and except the gangers appointed by the United

States, when he or they may be required to gauge and inspect

under the laws of the United States, and the deputy of either o!

the gaugers aforesaid, during the period in which his principal

may be sick.

Fines re-

SEC. 11. And be it enacted. That the fines prescribed by

coverable.

this act, may and shall be recovered before any justice of the

peace in the same manner that sums of like amount are by law

recoverable or in any court of record as the case may be.

COAL.

AN ACT to provide for the Weighing of Anthracite or Hard Coal, and for

Measuring Bituminous Coal, in the State of Maryland, and to repeal

the Act of Assembly heretofore passed in relation to that subject. — 1837,

ch. 816.

8,240 lbs. to

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

the ton of

That all anthracite or hard coal hereafter sold within the state

anthracite.

of Maryland, shall be sold by the ton, and twenty-two hundred

and forty pounds of any coal shall be allowed to the ton.

Bituminous

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all bituminous coal hereafter

coal by

sold within the state of Maryland shall be sold by measure, and

measure.

no measure shall be used, but those that have been proved and

stamped by the proper officers of the city or county where the

same is to be used, except foreign coal subject to duty, in

•which case the measure of the general government will be used.

Balance to

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all scales used for weighing

be inspected

I anthracite or hard coal, called platform, box or patent balance or

steelyards, shall be subject to the inspection of "the inspector of

weights, in each city and county, who shall examine and prove

said scales twice in every year, correcting them when neces-

Compen-

sary, for which the owner or owners shall pay him for each

sation.

time, one dollar and fifty cents for proving and correcting a

platform scale, one dollar for a box scale, and seventy-five cents

for steelyards, exclusive of every necessary expense in proving

and correcting them, and when any scale or steelyard is out of

order beyond remedy he shall have power to prohibit its future

use.