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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1816.

*1704, ch.
16.

CHAPTER 76.

AN ACT to alter and amend the Act,* entitled, an Act for the encourage-
ment of such persons as will undertake to build Water Mills.
See notes to the original law, ante page 3.

No miller
to demand
more than
one-eighth.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the first day of March, in the year eighteen
hundred and seventeen, no master, owner, miller, or other per-
son properly belonging to, or otherwise owning any mill within
this state, shall ask, demand or receive, for grinding any quan-
tity or quantities of Indian com or rye, above one-eighth part
of every bushel of Indian com or rye by him or them so ground
as aforesaid, upon penalty and forfeiture of fifty dollars current
money, for every offence, one-half to the use of the state, and
the other half to him or them that shall inform or sue for the
same, to be recovered in the respective counties by action of
debt, before any justice of the peace, in the manner as pre-
scribed by law for the recovery of small debts out of court.
This leaves the original act in force as to the toll on wheat.

Part of an
act repealed

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That so much of the act to which
this is an amendment, repugnant to the provisions herein con-
tained, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Made permanent by 1817, ch. 130.

CHAPTER 98.
AN ACT for appointing a Printer to the State.

Printer
appointed.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Jonas Green be and he is hereby appointed and constitu-
ted printer to the state.

His duty.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
printer appointed by virtue of this act, to print the laws and
votes and proceedings of the general assembly, agreeably to the
provisions of the act of 1790, chapter 51 , section 3, and in con-
formity to the 64th resolution passed November session, 1811 ;

Proviso.

Provided nevertheless, that for the present year the printer afore-
said shall be allowed twenty days in addition to the time here-
tofore allowed by law for printing the laws, votes and proceed-
ings, after the same shall be delivered to him by the clerk, any
thing in any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Printer to
give bond.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the printer to the state shall,
within fifteen days after the close of every annual session of
the general assembly, enter into bond to the state of Maryland,
in the penalty of twenty-four hundred dollars, with such secu-
rity as shall be approved by the treasurer of the western shore,
which bond shall be lodged with the said treasurer, conditioned
that he will, as printer to the state of Maryland, faithfully print
the laws on paper of good quality, and the votes and proceed-