1512

BALTIMORE CITY.

Wagoner,
&c. loading
unfairly.

SEC. 6. And be if enacted, That if any wagoner, driver or
owner of any wagon, or other carriage, shall make use of any
device, in the loading his wagon, or other carriage, or suffer
any other to do so, with a view of deceiving the inspector and
measurer, in the quality and quantity thereof, or shall after ob-

Or suffer
diminution
of load.

taining a certificate, suffer any part of his load to be disposed of,
or diminished, and then sell, or offer to sell the remainder for
the quantity mentioned in the certificate; or shall exchange his

Or ex-
change cer-
tificate.
Penalty.

certificate for any other, of a greater quantity or better quality,
he shall forfeit and pay for every such offence ten dollars : and
should the inspector discover that device or fraud had been

Cause for
action.

Used, for the purpose of deceiving, either in quantity or quality,
will be sufficient cause for action.

Buyer if
dissatisfied,
&c.

Inspector
shall re-
examine.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That when any person bringing
lime to the city for sale, in any wagon, car, cart, or other car-
riage, shall have delivered and discharged the same, and it shall
appear to the buyer, or receiver of the same, that some fraud or
device had been used in the loading or unloading thereof, not
known or discovered by the inspector, he, she or they may com-
plain thereof to the inspector, who is hereby authorized and re-
quired forthwith to examine into the cause of complaint; and
should the inspector be satisfied that his first certificate was not
correct, then, in that case he shall revoke and annul the first
certificate, and issue and deliver a new one instead thereof,
expressing the just quantity and quality ; and should it appear

Penalty for
fraud.

that fraud was intended, and any device used, with an intent to
deceive the inspector, then and in that case, the owner, driver or
agent of said lime shall forfeit and pay for every such offence
ten dollars.

Penalties
prescribed

SEC. 8. And be it enacted. That all lime that is clear of core,
gravel, sand, and dirt, shall be considered first quality, and so
in proportion with all other lime less fine, according to the
judgment of the inspector, until it is reduced to third quality, or
condemned as herein before mentioned.
SEC. 9, 10, 11, 12. Repealed by 1835, ch. 76.

AN ACT to alter and amend an Act providing for the Appointment of
Lime Inspectors, for the City of Baltimore, and prescribing their duties.
1835, ch. 76.

Authority
revoked.

SEC. I. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That so much of the act providing for the appointment of lime
inspectors, for the city of Baltimore, and prescribing their duties,
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-two,
chapter two hundred and sixty- nine, that vests in the mayor
and city council, the appointment of the inspectors provided
for in said act, be and the same is hereby amended, and it is
hereby enacted in amendment thereof, that the said inspectors