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The Maryland Code : Public General Laws and Public Local Laws, 1860
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222 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

363. The ganger and inspector, whenever it may be required
by the seller or his agent, shall give a certificate specifying the
true quantity of proof domestic distilled liquor contained in each
cask gauged and inspected by him.

364. The said ganger and inspector, in order to ascertain the
capabity of casks, shall conform to the Baltimore standard of
wine measure; and if any cask or vessel gauged or marked by
said ganger and inspector shall in its capacity bo found lacking
or exceeding one or more gallons in any barrel, or two or more
gallons in any cask of a larger size, the ganger and inspector
shall forfeit and pay two dollars for each gallon so lacking or
exceeding the number of gallons marked by him <i such cask.

365. It shall be the duty of every licensed ganger and in-
spector, whenever the Government of the United States shall
determine to use a different hydrometer, to procure and use
hydrometers of the description which shall then be used by the
gangers of the United States.

366. If any person shall alter any mark or number marked or
set down by any licensed ganger and inspector, thereby to de-
ceive and defraud the purchaser of distilled spirits, wine, molasses,
or other liquid merchandise so gauged, inspected and marked, or
shall put any false mark or number on any such cask, or upon
any certificate intending to counterfeit the mark or numbers of
the ganger, he shall forfeit and pay twenty dollars for every
offence, one-half to the informer and the other half to the use of
the S.tate.

367. Every licensed inspector and ganger shall be entitled to
demand and receive from the person at whose request he shall
gauge and inspect any cask or casks, the following fees, to wit:

for gauging casks containing domestic distilled liquors, if not
exceeding forty gallons, six and a quarter cents per cask; for
proving the same, three cents; for gauging casks containing
such liquors, if of larger size, ten cents per cask; for proving the
same, four cents; and for registering in a book to be kept for
that purpose and giving a certificate therefrom of the quantity
so gauged and inspected, for any person whenever required, one
cent per cask; for gauging casks containing oil or molasses, and
not exceeding forty gallons, ten cents per cask: if of larger size,
fifteen cents per cask; and for gauging casks containing any
other liquor, six and a quarter cents per cask, if not exceeding

 

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