164 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

mark or impression which may be made by or with the said as-
sayer's stamp or mark, or shall sell, exchange or expose, or offer
for sale or exchange, any wrought plate of silver, or any vessel
of such base metal as aforesaid, with any such forged or counter-
feited stamp, mark or impression thereon, or any stamp, mark or
impression which hath been transferred or removed from any
other piece of plate, knowing such stamp, mark or impression to
be forged, counterfeited or transposed, or removed as aforesaid, or
shall wilfully or knowingly have or be possessed of any mark or
stamp which hath been or shall be forged or counterfeited in imi-
tation of and to resemble any mark or stamp of said assayer, he
shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay the sum of five
hundred dollars, to be recovered by action of debt in the
Criminal Court of Baltimore, in the name of the mayor and city
council of Baltimore, one-half thereof to the mayor and city
council for the use of the city, and the other half to the use of
the informer, and shall be committed by the court to the. peni-
tentiary of the State of Maryland, there to remain and to be
kept at hard labor for any time not exceeding the space of five
years, nor less than one year, and until payment be made of the
said forfeiture.

77. It shall be lawful for any manufacturer or manufacturers
of silver ware in said city, to sell, exchange, expose or offer to
sell or exchange, any silver vessel or plate, or other manufacture
whatsoever, by himself or themselves, manufactured within the
said city, without requiring the stamp or mark of the assayer
thereupon; Provided, that every vessel or plate'or other manufac-
ture of silver thus sold, exchanged or exposed, or offered for
sale or exchange, which shall be over the weight of five penny-
weights, shall be stamped with the name or names of the manu-
facturer or manufacturers, and also the numerical figure or figures
corresponding with the fineness thereof, under the penalty of
twenty dollars for each and every article which shall not be so
stamped.

78. It shall be lawful for any person or persons who may not
be manufacturers of silver ware, to sell, exchange or expose, or
offer to sell or exchange in said city, any silver vessel, plate or
other manufacture of silver whatsoever not manufactured within
the said city, and having thereon the name or names of the
person or persons so selling, exchanging or offering to sell, or
exchange the same, together with the numerical figures corre-
sponding to the fineness thereof; but it shall be lawful for the