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BALTIMORE CITY.

Owners of

SEC.4. And be it enacted, That no owner or owners of any

fisheries
excused

fishery shall be compelled to have his or their fish inspected at

from in-

his or their fishery, if intended to be transported to any port or

spection.

place within the United States having a fish inspection.

Repealing

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That any act of assembly relative

clause.

to the inspection of salted fish, inconsistent with or repugnant to

the provisions of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act relating to Salted

Fish brought to the City of Baltimore, passed at December session,

eighteen hundred and twenty-three, chapter two hundred and three.

1825, ch. 127.

Penalty for

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

obstructing
landing, &c.

That if any person or persons in said city, shall attempt to pre-

vent or obstruct the landing, inspection and storage of salted

fish in said city, between the first day of November and the first

day of June in each and every year, on any public wharf or

place where salted provisions are usually landed and stored, he

or they so offending, shall forfeit and pay for each and every

offence, the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered in the

name of the state, before a justice of the peace, as other small

debts are recovered, one-half of which shall be appropriated to

the informer, and the other half to the use of the state, any act

of assembly, or of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, to

the contrary notwithstanding.

City wharfs

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all wharves and places of

declared

landing in the city of Baltimore, which are or may be owned

public.

by the mayor and city council of Baltimore, shall be, and they

are hereby declared to be? public wharves within the intent and

meaning of this act, and of the original act to which this is a

further supplement, and of the other supplements thereto.

Respecting

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the

wharfage.

corporation of the city of Baltimore to establish any higher rate

of wharfage for barrels of salted fish, than for barrels contain-

ing any other salted provisions.

Informer a

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That in all actions, civil or crimi-

competent
witness.

nal, for the recovery of the penalty mentioned in this act, the

informer shall be, and he is hereby declared to be a competent

witness.

AN ACT authorizing the Governor and Council of this State to appoint

Inspectors of Sailed Fish for the City of Baltimore, and for other pur-

poses.— 1826, ch. 137.

Appoint-

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

ment of
inspectors.

That the governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of

the council, appoint and commission, on or before the first Mon-

day in April next, and annually thereafter, two persons of inte-

grity, skilful in the goodness, quality, and well curing of salted