INSPECTIONS.

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acts done by the inspectors appointed for the city of Baltimore,

within the precincts of said city, shall be as valid as if the said

inspections had been made within the said city ; Provided, that :

Proviso.

nothing in this act contained shall extend, or be construed to

extend, to authorize any inspector of flour to inspect the same

in or at any mill within the said precincts.

AN ACT to authorize the Governor and Council of Maryland, to appoint

the Inspectors of Flour for this State.—1825, ch. 174.

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

Appoint-

That the governor and council shall appoint on or before the

ment di-
rected.

first Monday of April next, and annually thereafter, or oftenet

if necesssary, three inspectors of flour for the city of Baltimore,

and one for the city of Frederick, who shall be governed in

their inspections by the same rules and regulations that nt pre-

sent exist, and shall be entitled to the same compensation they

at present receive.

By 1831, ch. 209, an additional inspector to be appointed for the City of

Baltimore.

SEC. 2. Merged in 1833, ch. 246, sec. 1.

SEC. 3. Merged in 1828, ch. 87.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts of

Repeal.

assembly, inconsistent with or contrary to the provisons of this

act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to authorize the Governor

and Council of Maryland to appoint the Inspectors of Flour of this

State, passed at December sesssion, eighteen hundred and twenty-five.

chapter one hundred and seventy-four. — 1828, ch. 87.

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

Barrrels

That from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be

may be
repaired.

lawful for any inspector to condemn any flour barrel, or half

barrel, which can, in his opinion, be repaired at a reasonable

expense, and it shall be the duty of the several inspectors of

flour for this state, under the penalty of five dollars for each

barrel, in all cases where they pronounce a barrel or half barrel

to be unmerchantable, and capable of being made merchantable,

to direct the said barrel to be repaired at the expense of the

owner or owners, his, her or their agent, stating at the same

time by a certificate of the inspector who may have inspected

the said barrel, the brand and cooper's mark, with the defect or

defects of the same, and whether the cause of such defect or

defects is, in his opinion, owing to the neglect of the cooper,

wagoner, miller, or otherwise, as the case may appear to the

said inspector, together with the necessary costs of repairing

the said barrel, which said certificate, so prepared, shall be

delivered by the said inspector to the owner or owners, his, her

or their agent.