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BALTIMORE CITY.

in question, and to compare the same with the said standard ;

and if they or any two of them, upon such comparison, shall

reverse the judgment so appealed from, the inspector whose

judgment is so reversed, shall put on the cask or casks contain-

Brand

ing the aforesaid Hour such brand as the aforesaid three persons,

directed.

or any two of them, shall declaie to be agreeable to the said

standard.

Prompt

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of each

attendance
enjoined

assistant inspector of flour, promptly to obey any notice he may

receive of his presence being required 111 any place or places in

the inspection district of the said city to which he shall belong

for the tune being; and should such inspector refuse or neglect

to obey such notice for a longer time than two hours, after it

Penalty

has been given, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of three dollars.

Duty of

SEC. 8. And be it enacted That the general inspector afoie

general

said, shall diligently superintend the assistant inspectors, at the

inspector

places where they shall be employed in the discharge of then

official duties, and by a frequent comparison of the flour which

they shall inspect, with the standaid to be fixed as aforesaid,

shall ascertain whether they, and each of thorn regulate the in

spection confounably to said standard; and the said geneial

inspector, shall annually, on the thirtieth day of November,

Report to

report to the governor and council the conduct of the different

executive

assistant inspectors, both as to their observance of the estab

lished standard of inspection, and their diligence in performing

their official duties, in their respective districts.

May

SEC, 9. And be it enacted, That if the general inspector afoie

suspend

said, shall upon a careful and impartial examination of the sub

assistant
inspectors

ject, be satisfied, that either of the said assistant inspectors, shall

at any time of service of said general inspector, wilfully or from

ignorance, put upon any cask of flour, a brand designating a

higher or inferior degree of fineness, than according to the true

quality of such flour ought to be put thereon, then and in such

case, the said general inspector is hereby authorized and re

quired to suspend the said assistant inspector frorn his office,

until the next meeting of the governor and council, before

Must report

whom, and at such meeting the said general inspector shall lay

the same

a statement in writing of the grounds of such suspension, with

an affidavit of the truth thereof; and the governor and council

are hereby empowered to continue such suspension or re instate

the assistant inspector, as the circumstances of the case may in

their judgment require.

Disposition

SEC. 10 And be it enacted, That the drawings which the

of drawings.

inspectors of flour shall take from the casks to be inspected by

them, shall as soon as conveniently may be thereafter, be de-

posited in some suitable place in said city, to be designated by

the general inspector, and shall be sold by the said general in-