INSPECTIONS.

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day of November, in each and every year ; and that from the

first day of May to the first day of November, ever^ merchafat

dealing in fish in the city of Baltimore, be allowed to havfc in

his warehouse, or on his premises, at one time, thirty-sit bar-

rels of merchantable fish, and no more.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the keeper of the public

Receipts

store-house in the city of Baltimore, be compelled to give a re-

for.

ceipt for the number of barrels or half barrels of fish landed at

the public store-hotise, as soon as they are inspected and coop-

ered, when they are left to be stored, and that no storage shall

be charged or exacted when the party who has the charge of

them, demands their removal to, the city before three o'clock of

the afternoon of the day on which they are landed and in-

spected, or if the owner takes them into his own of any other

vessel not belonging to said fish house, on the day they are

inspected, before five o'clock in the afternoon, he shall not be

subject to any storage or scow hire.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That if the keeper of the said

Penalty.

public store-house refuse to give a leceipt as above mentioned,

or to comply with any of the provisions of this act, he shall

forfeit and pay one hundred dollars for every such refusal of

neglect, one-half to be paid to the party injured, and the other

half to the state, to be recovered in the name of the state, by-

action of debt in Baltimore county court.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act relating lo Salted Fish brought

to the City of Baltimore, passed at December session, eighteen hundred

and twenty-three, chapter two hundred and three. — 1824, ch. 181.

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

Landing

That it shall and may be lawful for fcby person or persons to

authorized;
exceptions;

land salted fish for inspection, sate or storage, on any phblic

48 barrels

wharf, or with the consent of the owner of any private wharf

in store.

in the city of Baltimore, except from the first day of June to

the first day of November in each and every year, and that

from the first day of June to the first day of November, every

merchant dealing in fish in the city of Baltimore, be allowed to

have in his warehouse, or on his premises, at any one time,

forty-eight barrels of merchantable fish, and no more.

SEC. 2. Merged in 1830, ch. 140.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when any fish are con-

Condemned

demned within the city of Baltimore, the owner or owners

fish to be
removed.

thereof, or their agent, shall have the same removed beyond the

limits of said city, within twenty-four hours thereafter, under

the penalty of forfeiting and paying, for each condemned barrel

or half barrel of fish, the sum of five dollars ; one-half thereof

shall be appropriated to the informer, and the other half to the

use of the state, to be recovered by a common warrant before a

justice of the peace.