LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1828.

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SEC. 22. And be it enacted, That the compensation of the
commissioners of lotteries and their clerk, shall be dependent
upon and be received out of the funds derived from the avails
of lotteries drawn or to be drawn during the current year.

Compensa-
tion of com-
missioners.

CHAPTER 145.

Aw ACT to exempt the Wearing Apparel of Deceased Persons from
Appraisement and exposure to Sale by Executors and Administrators.
Repealed by 1830, ch. 617.

CHAPTER 148.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to regulate Sales by Public
Auctions, passed at December session, 1827.
Transferred to 'Public Local Law,' title, 'Baltimore City.'

CHAPTER 1GO.

AN ACT SUPPLEMENTARY to an ACT, entitled, an Act to regulate Elections.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, at all elections of
delegates to the general assembly, elections of electors of the
senate, electors of president and vice-president of the United
States, of representatives in congress, and of sheriffs, it shall be
lawful for any justice of the peace for the respective county in
which such election is held, to qualify the judges of such re-
spective election, and their clerks, and the oaths administered
by such justice shall be as valid as if administered in the man-
ner heretofore prescribed by law.

Justice of
the peace
authorized
to qualify
judges of
election.

CHAPTER 164.

A further additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT* to regulate the Inspection
of Tobacco.

*1801, ch.
63.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That hereafter no tobacco shall be passed, or accounted lawful
tobacco, unless the same shall be packed in hogsheads not ex-
ceeding fifty inches in the length of the staves, and seventy-
six inches in the whole diameter within the staves, at the cross
and bilge, and the owner of tobacco packed in any hogshead of
greater dimensions shall repack the same in sizeable hogsheads
as herein before expressed and directed, at his own expense,
before the same shall be passed.

Size of
hogsheads
regulated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That no inspector or inspectors of
tobacco in this state shall require any owner or owners of to-
bacco, heretofore packed in hogsheads varying from the dimen-
sions required by the act of assembly passed at November
session 1801, chapter 63, section 125, to repack the same in
hogsheads of the dimensions required by said act, before the
first day of December next, any law to the contrary hereof not-
withstanding.

Inspectors
not to re-
quire
owners in
certain
cases to
repack
tobacco.