INSPECTIONS.

for the purpose of sale, shall be subject to the like regulations
with regard to inspection and cording, which are now in force
with regard to wood landed at the wharves in the city of Balti-
more.

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subject to
all regula-
tions.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted* That in any appeal or appeals
from the decision of any wood-corder or wood-corders, the
mayor of the city of Baltimore be, and he is hereby authorized
to direct such appeal or appeals to be tried by any three disin-
terested persons in the same manner that such appeals are now
tried by three wood-corders.
The appeal modified by 1832, ch. 300.

A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act authorizing the
appointing of Inspectors and Wood-Cordero, and to regulate the Cording
of Fire -Wood, brought by water to the City of Baltimore. — 1832, ch.
300,

Trial of
appeals.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That whenever any one shall consider himself, or herself ag-
grieved by the measurement of any inspector, or wood-corder,
and shall apply to the mayor of the city of Baltimore, to select
•three persons, to try an appeal as provided for by an act, passed
December session, eighteen hundred twenty-nine, chapter eigh-

Case of
persona
aggrieved in
measute-
ment

ty-five, section five, that the persons so appointed, shall not be
venders of wood or purchasers (except for their family use) and
previous to their acting on said appeal, shall make the following
oath or affirmation (as the case may be) before some person au-
thorized to administer the same. 'I do solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I will faithfully and impartially try the matter depending on
this appeal and determine the same according to my best judg-

Persons ap-
pointed on
appeal not
be venders
of wood.
Oath re-
quired.

ment, without fear, favour or affection, so help me God,' and the
inspector or wood-corder from whose decision the appeal is made,
shall be held responsible to the party making the appeal, to pay

Corder
responsible.

to the said party the sum of twenty cents, for each and every
cord, that the said persons who try the appeal, shall determine
to be a deficiency or excess as the case may be, the same to be
recovered by warrant in the name of the party aggrieved before
any justice of the peace, in the same manner as other small
debts are recovered ; and it shall ba the duty of the persons

Penalty.

trying the appeal to make a return to the said mayor of their
decision, and they shall be entitled to receive fifty cents each,
for their services ; the same to be paid by the party against
whom said appeal is decided : Provided nevertheless, if said
deficiency or increase shall in the opinion of the parties trying
the appeal, appear to have proceeded from error of judgment,
in the inspector or wood-corder, then upon the parties trying
the appeal, or a majority of them certifying the same under
their hands to the mayor; the party aggrieved shall have no

Return of
board of
appeal.

If certifying
error in
judgment.