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BALTIMORE CITY.

Corder only
accountable
for coats

right to recover from (be inspector or wood-corder, any thing
more than the costs of said appeal as provided for in this section.

Order's
certificate
to specify
hour and
day of mea-
surement.

Time al-
lowed for
appeal.

SEC, 2. And be it enacted^ That it shall be the duty of the
wood-corders or inspectors, to state in the certificate or ticket of
inspection which they may issue, the hour and the day said in-
spection was made, and it shall not be in the power of any one
to appeal from the same, unless said appeal is made and tried,
before the sun setting on the day on which the said wood has
been inspected.

Notice to
parties on
appeal.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That before the reviewers to be
appointed to decide upon any appeal from the decision of any
wood-corder shall proceed to act, they shall give notice of the
time of making such review to the buyer, seller and corder of
the wood to be reviewed, or shall be satisfied by competent
testimony that such notice has been given by some of the
parties, and said reviewers shall also be satisfied either by the

Condition
of wood.

Mayor and
city council
to report to
governor
all such
appeals.

admission of all the parties or by competent testimony, that the
wood to be reviewed remains entire as it was passed by the
corder.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said mayor of the city
of Baltimore, be, and he is hereby authorized and required to
make half-yearly returns or reports to the governor and council
of all appeals, and the returns of the persons trying the same as
herein before pointed out, so that if from said returns there is
just reason to believe the inspector or wood-corder, shall have
executed the duties of his office, with incompetency, partiality
or evil intention, that said governor and council may thereby
exercise their discretion in removing said inspector or wood-
corder from office.

Repeal.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That the provisions of any and
every law inconsistent with those of this act, be, and same are
hereby repealed.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, authorizing the appointing of Inspectors and
Wood-Corders, and to regulate the Cording of Fire-Wood, brought
by water to the City of Baltimore, for sale, passed December session,
eighteen hundred and sixteen, chapter one hundred and ninety-nine.
1838, ch. 93.

Clause
requiring
wood to be
2 inches,
repealed*

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
so much of the fifth section of the original act, to which this is
a supplement, as requires that the cord-wood, shall be not less
than two inches in diameter at the small end, be and the same
is hereby repealed.

INTESTATES' ESTATE.
See ante page 1468, title 'Free Schools.1