INSPECTIONS,
returns to be made to the register of the city of Baltimore, Under

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a penalty of one hundred dollars for each neglect, or refusal, to
be recoved before any justice of the peace of the city of Balti-
more, one-half to the informer, and the other to the state of
Maryland.

Penalty for
neglect.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That hereafter it shall be the duty
of the said inspectors when they are called upon to inspect any
plank, or other lumber, which shall have been measured and
marked, and said measurement shall appear to be incorrect, to
cause the same to be obliterated.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT to regulate the Inspection of Lumber
in the City of Baltimore.— 1835, ch. 252.
See 1835, ch. 349, sec. 3, post, title 'Wharfage.1

To oblit-
erate erro-
neous marks

SEC. 1. Be U enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the first of October next, it shall be the
duty of the inspectors of lumber, in the city of Baltimore, to in-
spect and count all white pine shingles of two feet and upwards
in length, that may be brought to said city for sale, as cedar and
cypress shingles now are inspected of the same length.

Shall count
W. pine
shingles*

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the
several inspectors aforesaid, to inspect, count and mark all
bundled cypress or juniper shingles, that may be brought to the
city of Baltimore for sale, in the following manner, to wit: an
average bundle in every five thousand shingles shall be opened
and inpected, and the number of cullings ascertained therein,
from which an average shall be made of the cullings in each
bundle, and the number of good and cullings as per average

Inspection
of cypress
shingles.

marked on each bundle in red chalk figures, and as compensa-
tion for the same, the inspector shall receive ten cents per
thousand.

Compen-
sation.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons
shall be convicted of obliterating or wantonly destroying such
mark, or of mixing after inspection other shingles with a fraudu-
lent intent, he, she, or they shall be fined a sum, not exceeding
fifty dollars for each and every offence, to be recovered by indict-
ment in Baltimore city court, and collected as other fines are
collected in this state, one-half for the use of the informer and
the other for the use of the state.

Penalty for
obliterating.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That all quartered boards or
planks, of pitch or yellow pine, of one inch or one inch and a
quarter in thickness, or all such as is manufactured for flooring,
shall be marked and designated, by the inspectors aforesaid,
into three qualities, as follows, the first quality to be free from
sap, knots, wind-shakes or other defects, and also to be at least
one inch and a quarter in thickness! and shall be marked with
ltd contents in board measure, the second quality to be sound
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Inspection
of flooring
plank.