1612

BALTIMORE CITY.

Penalty on
persons
hindering,
fee.

SEC. 34. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons
shall hinder, prevent or obstruct the measuring or gauging of
the felloes of such wheels, or the seizing or distraining of any,
horse or beast of draught hereby directed to be forfeited, every
such person or persons so offending shall, for every such of-
fence, forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds, being thereof
legally convicted in any county court within this state : Pro-
vided, that if it shall appear, that the felloes of such wheels
were originally made of the full breadth prescribed by this act,
and to have become less by wear or use, except the same shall
be less than three inches and one-half wide, the penalties and
forfeitures hereby imposed on the owner or owners shall not be
incurred, nor the same recovered in manner aforesaid, or in any
other manner : Provided also, that nothing in this act shall be
deemed, held or construed, to debar or prevent any person or
persons, residing as aforesaid, from transporting in his or their
own wagon, wain or cart, for his, her or their own use, but not
for hire, any matters or things whatsoever, with two beasts of
draught only, except stones, bricks, lime, loam, sand, gravel,
iron, lead, cord-wood, coal, scantling, timber and boards : Pro-
vided, such matters and things do not exceed in any one load
half a ton weight, on, or through any of the paved parts of the
said town, and with any greater number of beasts of draught
within or through any other parts of the said town not paved,
although the felloes of the wheels of said wagon, wain or cart,
be not of the dimensions aforesaid, any thing in this act to the
contrary notwithstanding.

Drays, &c.
not to pass
with nar-
row wheels,
&c.

SEC. 35. And be it enacted, That no dray or other carriage,
used for any transportation of merchandise from one part of the
town to the other, by any porter or drayman, shall travel or be
drawn on the paved parts of the said town, unless the felloes of
the wheels of such dray or other carnage shall be of the breadth
or gauge above directed, under the penalty of five pounds, to be
paid by the owner of such dray or other carriage, and to be re-
covered as debts not exceeding five pounds, one moiety thereof
to the person who shall sue for the same, the other for paving
or repairing the streets : Provided, always, that this act is not
meant to extend to carriages now in use.

Carters to
have
marked
standards,
&c.

SEC, 36. And be it enacted, That every wagoner, carter, or
drayman, employed to haul wood for the inhabitants of said
town, shall have in his said wagon or cart, of his own propeity,
a sufficient number of hewn standards, for preventing the wood
from falling off, marked with the initial letters of his Christian
and surnames on the outer side of said standards, under the
penalty of five shillings; and that if any wagoner, carter, or
drayman, shall take and appropriate any wood belonging to any
of the inhabitants aforesaid, which he shall be hired to haul, or