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inspector shall receive six cents, _ and for each cask so gauged
and marked, the sum of eight cents.

359. The said ganger and inspector shall upon request gauge
and inspect all domestic distilled liquors in the following manner,
to wit:

360. He shall mark all merchantable casks containing domestic
distilled liquors with the letter B., with a marking iron on the
bilge near the bung, to denote Baltimore inspection; and any
cask containing such liquor to be merchantable must be round at
the bilge and heads, the staves thereof to be seasoned white oak,
free from any jmjurious portion of sap wood, and not less than
half an inch thick at the thinnest part, and not more than three-
quarters of an inch at the thickest part, and to be tight and
secured with a sufficient number of good hoops, if of iron six,
and if wood not less than twelve; and at least twelve on all
double barrels, and hogsheads, and if any cask containing such
liquor shall be found deficient in any of these respects by said
ganger and inspector, he shall direct it to be coopered or other
casks substituted therefor at the expense of the owner or seller,
and if any such cask shall be found to be fraudulently made, the
owner or seller thereof, or his agent, shall forfeit the cask to the
use of the State.

861. He shall procure and use a correct set of gauging instru-
ments and Dycus' hydrometer, which he shall keep in good
order; and as soon as he has ascertained the capacity of any
cask, and the strength of the domestic distilled liquors contained
therein, he shall distinctly mark with marking irons the capa-
city on the bilge near the bung, and prefix the initial letter of
his surname; he shall likewise mark the number of gallons of
proof spirit contained in said cask on the bead thereof, and for
this purpose the standard of proof spirits is hereby fixed at
eighty-five degrees of the aforesaid hydrometer.

362. All marks that shall be made by said ganger and in-
spector, determining the quantity of proof distilled liquors con-
tained in any cask, shall be defaced thereon so soon as the same
shall have been emptied, under a penalty of fiye dollars, to the
use of the informer, to be paid by the owner or owners or person
having possession thereof.