BALTIMORE CITY.

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by land or water, which in the judgment of the inspector is
below the standard of third quality, shall be condemned, and
thus mentioned in the certificate given by the inspector, and
also so marked on the cask or other vessel.

to be con-
demned.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That all penalties imposed by
these acts, may be collected in the name of the state of Mary-
land, as other fines, one-half to the informer, and the other to
the use of the state.

One half of
penalties to
state, the
other half
to informer.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That all and every provision of
acts to which this is a supplement, that is inconsistent with
this, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act relating to Insolvent
Debtors in the City and County of Baltimore; passed December session,
eighteen hundred and sixteen, chapter two hundred and twenty-one.
1839, ch. 334.

Repeal.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the fourth day of July next, it shall not be law-
ful for the commissioners of insolvent debtors for the city and
county of Baltimore, nor for the clerk of the said commission-
ers, to charge any fees which might, but for the passage of this
act, accrue upon the application of any person for the benefit
of the insolvent laws of Maryland, unless the sum of the debts
due by said person at the time of his said application, shall
exceed the sum of fifty dollars.

Commis-
sioners not
to charge
where debts
do not
amount to
$50.

SEC. 2 And be it enacted, That when the sum of the debts
due by any person at any time of his application as aforesaid,
shall exceed the sum of fifty and not exceed the sum of two
hundred dollars, the said commissioners and their clerk shall
each receive as a compensation for all their services connected
with said application, the sum of one dollar ; Provided never-
theless, that nothing in this act contained, shall be construed to
prevent the said commissioners or their clerk from charging in
such cases when interrogatories are filed by the creditor, the
same fees now allowed by law ; which fees shall in the first
instance be paid by the creditor, and be reimbursed by the
debtors in case the report of the commissioners be unfavour-
able upon the ground of fraud.

Where
debts are
abort $50,
and not ex-
ceeds $200,
commis-
sioner, and
clerk to
charge $1
each.
Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That the notice to the creditors
of all applicants within the provisions of the preceding sec-
tions, shall be advertised in one of the Baltimore newspapers
once a week for four weeks; and such advertisements shall
contain the name of the applicant, the amount of his schedule,
and the days fixed for the appointment of a trustee and the
final discharge of the debtor.

Notice to
creditors to
be publish-
ed.