LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1816.

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are seized of a reversion, dependant upon an estate for life, and
upon the assent of the tenant for life, for the sale thereof, to order
and adjudge the annual interest, or such part thereof as they
may deem equitable, to be paid over to such tenant for life,
during his life.

• CHAPTER 160.

seized of a

reversion,

&c.

AN ACT to prevent the Fraudulent Sales of Flour and Whiskey.
SEC, 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the first day of March next if any person
shall give, or promise to give, to any driver or person having
charge of any wagon, or other carriage, any sum or suras of
money, or goods of any description, for the purpose of obtaining
flour or whiskey, entrusted to the care of such driver or person
having the charge or care thereof, at any price below the market
price of the day, or shall wilfully make out any bill or bills for
the same, without stating the full amount paid, or promised to
be paid, to such wagoner or person having care thereof, shall
forfeit and pay a sum of money not exceeding fifty and not less
than twenty dollars, one-half to the use of the informer, and
the other half to the use of the person injured, to be recovered
before any justice of the peace in the same manner as small
debts are recovered out of court.

Penalty for
giving any
sum below
market
price for
flour, &c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any driver or person hav-
ing charge of any wagon, or other carriage, shall take or receive
any sum or sums of money, or goods of any description, from
any person or persons, as an inducement for selling any flour
or whiskey under the market price of the day, and not make
return thereof to the proper owner or owners of such flour or
whiskey, and the facts thereof being proven before any justice
of the peace in any town or county within this state, he shall
pay to the person injured double the amount of the sum so
received, and shall moreover pay a fine not exceeding twenty
and not less than five dollars, one half of which fine to the
person prosecuting for the same, and the other half to the use
of the poor of the county in which the case is heard, to be reco-
vered as debts of equal amount are by law recoverable out of
court.

CHAPTER 164.

—— On
drivers re-
ceiving mo-
ney as an
inducement
for selling
below mar-
ket price.

A further additional SUPPLEMENTARY ACT to the Act,* entitled, an Act
for Quieting Possessions, Enrolling Conveyances, and securing the
Estates of Purchasers.
See notes to 1715, ch. 47, ante page 35.

*1715, ch,
47.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That where any deed, conveyance, or instrument of writing,
intending to pass, convey and transfer, or purporting to pass,

Deeds in
certain
cases to
have effect.