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275. No person shall be entitled to such license who is engaged
individually or as a partner in, or as an agent, clerk, or employee
of, a trader, vendor or manufacturer in manufacturing, vending,
or trading in ground black oak bark.

276. Any person may buy, sell, export, or otherwise dispose of
ground black oak bark, without having the same inspected or
weighed, but in all cases of difference between the buyer and
seller as to the quantity and quality of said article, either party
may call in any licensed inspector of the article, and his judg-
ment shall bind the parties.

277. The person so licensed, when called upon, shall weigh
and inspect each cask, bag, box or package, and mark thereon,
in plain legible characters, the weight and quality of the bark
contained therein.

278. Each licensed inspector shall be allowed the sum of
seventy-five cents per ton for every ton weight of bark of
twenty-two hundred and forty pounds by him inspected and
marked.

279. Any person not having a license to act as such inspector
•who shall so act, shall forfeit and pay to the sheriff of the city
the sum of two hundred dollars.

280. The said penalty shall be imposed as a fine by the Criminal
Court of said city on presentment or indictment by the grand
jury and conviction in due course of law; and one-third of said
penalty shall be paid by the sheriff to the informer, and the resi-
due shall be accounted for by the sheriff to the Treasurer of the
State as other fines and forfeitures.

' 281. Nothing contained in this article relating to the inspec-
tion of bark shall be construed to forbid the manufacturer or the
actual and bona fide owner of ground black oak bark from mark-
ing or stamping on the cask, bag, box or package containing the
same, the quantity or quality thereof.

. 282. No license shall authorize such inspector to act out of the
limits of the city, and any person who shall act as such out of
said city shall forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred dollars, to
be recovered and applied as hereinbefore directed.