208 .CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

COAL.

283. Any free white citizen of the State of Maryland, on appli-
cation to the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in Baltimore
city, and on paying said clerk the sum of one hundred dollars,
shall be entitled to receive a license to act as inspector of coal
for the term of one year from the dato thereof.

284. The person applying for such license shall, at the time of
receiving the same, take and subscribe before said clerk an .oath
that he will honestly and faithfully discharge the duties of said
office.

285. No person engaged in the vending or trading in coal, in-
dividually or as a partner, or as agent, clerk or employee of a
trader or vendor of coal, shall be entitled to a license to act as
inspector of coal.

286. All anthracite or hard coal sold within this State shall be
sold by the ton, and twenty-two hundred and forty pounds shall
be allowed to the ton.

287. All bituminous coal sold in this State shall be sold by
measure, and no measure shall be used but those that have been
proved and stamped by the proper officer, except foreign coal
subject to duty, in which case the measure of the general govern-
ment shall be used.

288. No person shall retail coal in the city of Baltimore with-
out a suitable scale approved of by the inspector of weights for
said city, and no person shall sell anthracite or hard coal from a
vessel without using a suitable scale approved as aforesaid.

289. Any person may sell, export or otherwise dispose of coal,
without having the same weighed or measured by a licensed
inspector, but in all cases of differences between the buyer and
seller as to the quantity and measurement, either party may
call in an inspector, and his judgment shall bind the parties.

290. The inspector so licensed shall, upon request, weigh and
measure any coal sold in said city, and shall be entitled to de-
mand and receive ten cents for every ton of hard coal weighed,
and the same amount for every thirty bushels of bituminous coal
measured.