242 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

if the offence be committed in Baltimore, or in the Circuit Court
of the county where the offence may be committed, one-half to
the informer and the other half to the use of the State.

480. The licensed inspectors shall be entitled to demand and
receive as a compensation for inspecting all lumber, twenty-five
cents for every thousand feet board measure, and twenty-five
cents per thousand for all shingles, exclusive of all necessary ex-
penses of labor, one-half to be paid by the buyer, the other by
the seller.

481. Whenever the buyer or seller of any lumber or timber
shall feel himself aggrieved by the measurement of any inspector,
the buyer shall appoint one of the licensed inspectors and the
seller another, and they two shall select a third person to act as
umpire, who shall be well acquainted with the kind of timber or
lumber to be re-surveyed, and. not a licensed inspector, and the
three persons so appointed shall re-measure and mark said lum-
ber or timber, and the decision shall be final.

482. The compensatioii. of said arbitrators shall not exceed
fifty cents per thousand feet, to be paid by the person found by
them to be in default.

483. If any person bringing to and selling lumber in said city
shall sell any lumber without having the same inspected by a
licensed inspector, unless the same has been previously inspected
as hereinbefore mentioned, he shall forfeit and pay a fine of five
dollars per thousand feet board measure, one-half to the informer,
the other to the use of the State, to be recovered as other fines
and forfeitures.

484. No license shall authorize any inspector of lumber to act
as such without the limits of the city.

485. Any person not having a license who shall act as inspector
of lumber, or who having a license shall act as such inspector
without the limits of the city, shall forfeit and pay to the sheriff
of the city the sum of three hundred dollars; said penalty to be
imposed as a fine by the Criminal Court on presentment or in-
dictment by the grand jury and conviction in due course of law;

and one-third of the penalty shall be paid by the sheriff to the
informer, and the residue shall be accounted for by the sheriff to
the Treasurer as other fines.