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any fish in said city, he shall forfeit and pay one hundred
dollars.

319. If the chief inspector or a sub-inspector shall place any
mark or brand on any barrel or cask of fish other than its condi-
tion or quality requires, he shall forfeit an amount equal in value
to the barrel or cask thus wrongfully marked; Provided, that no-
thing in this section shall hold such inspector responsible for such
forfeiture for a longer time than one month after such fish have
been inspected.

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320. It shall be lawful for any person to land salted fish for in-
spection, sale or storage, on any public wharf, or with the consent
of the owner, on any private wharf in the city of Baltimore, ex-
cept from the first day of June to the first day of November in
each year; and from the first day of June to the first day of No-
vember, any merchant dealing in fish in the city of Baltimore
shall be allowed to-have in his warehouse or on his premises, at
any one time, forty-eight barrels of merchantable fish, and no
more.

321. The keeper of the public storehouse in the said city shall
give a receipt for the number of barrels or half barrels of fish
landed at the public storehouse, as soon as they are inspected
and coopered, when they are left to be stored, and no storage
shall be charged or exacted when the party who has charge of
them demands their removal to the city before three o'clock of
the afternoon of the day on which they are landed and inspected,
or if the owner takes them into his own or any other vessel not
belonging to said house on the day they are inspected, before
five o'clock in the afternoon, he shall riot be subject to any
storage or scow hire.

322. If the keeper of the said public storehouse refuse to give
a receipt as directed in-the preceding section, he shall forfeit and
pay one hundred dollars, one-half to be paid to the party injured
and the other half to the State, to be recovered in the name of
the State by action in the Court of Common Pleas.

323. If any person in said city shall attempt to prevent or
obstruct the landing, inspection and storage of salted fish in said
city, between the first day of November and the first day of
June in each year, on any public wharf or place where salted
provisions are usually landed and stored, he shall forfeit and pay