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SOMERSET COUNTY.

said county, in such penalty as said court may direct, condi-
tioned for the preservation and safe keeping of said boats.

Repeal

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts,
inconsistent with the above, be, and the same are hereby
repealed.

INSPECTORS OF LUMBER— WOOD-C O RDE RS .
AN ACT to provide for the appointment of Inspectors and Measurers of
Lumber, and the Cording of Fire-wood, in the Town of Salisbury, in
Somerset and Worcester Counties, and at Tony-Tank Landing, and
their vicinities.— 1830, ch. 138.

Inspectors
to be ap-
pointed.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the governor and council be and they are hereby re-
quired, to appoint three or more suitable persons as inspectors
and measurers of lumber, and corders of fire-wood, for the
town of Salisbury, and at Tony-Tank landing, and their vicini-
ties, whose duty it shall be, when called on by any seller or pur-
chaser of any lumber or fire-wood, to inspect and measure the
same forthwith.

Deductions

may be

made.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That each of the said inspectors
and measurers of lumber, and corders of fire-wood, are hereby
directed and required, to make such deductions on all lumber
and fire-wood, for mildews, bad, hollow or rotten, knots, splits,
bad sawing, waney edges, rots or dotes, as he in his judgment
may think to be proper and just.

Allowance.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the
said inspectors, or any one of them, to charge and receive for
each one hundred feet of lumber which he may inspect and
measure, two cents, as a compensation for the same, and four
cents for each and every cord of fire-wood which he may be
called on to pass or measure, which said compensation, as the
case may be, shall be paid by the purchaser, and on neglect or
refusal of the purchaser to pay the same, the inspector is
hereby authorized to collect the same as other small debts are
collected.

Oath.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That before any inspector or
measurer, who may be appointed under this act, shall proceed
to inspect and measure lumber, or fire-wood, he shall take the
following oath : I, A. B. do swear on the Holy Evangely of
Almighty God, that I will measure and inspect lumber and
fire- wood without favour or partiality, to the best of my know-
ledge, skill and judgment, so help me God.

AN ACT to provide for the appointment of a Wood-corder in the Town
of Princess Anne, in Somerset County — 1831, ch. 126.

Appoint-
ment

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the governor and council be, and they are hereby re-
quired, to appoint a suitable person as a corder of fire-wood, in