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The Maryland Code : Public General Laws and Public Local Laws, 1860
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910 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 21.

179. When any person may want lumber or coal inspected
and measured, he shall notify said inspector and measurer, and
they shall immediately thereafter inspect or measure the same,
but nothing herein shall be construed to compel any person to
have his lumber or coal inspected or measured, but all persons
wishing it shall have it done by the measurer or inspector
appointed, and if any person receive pay therefor, without
being appointed by the Governor as aforesaid, he shall forfeit
and pay the sum of twenty dollars for every offence, to be
recovered in the name of "the burgesses and commissioners of
the town of Williamsport," for the use of the town.

180. The measurer and inspector of lumber may measure all
lumber with a tape line, having thereon legibly marked its
length in feet and inches, and shall receive the sum of twelve
and a half cents per thousand feet for measuring the same; and
shall in all other respects be guided by the directions for the
inspection of lumber in the city of Baltimore.

181. The measurer of coal shall be entitled to one-fourth of
a cent for measuring each bushel of coal, to be paid by the
purchaser of the same.

182. The inspection district of flour, lumber and coal for the
town of Williamsport, shall be designated by the following
limits, metes and bounds: Beginning at lock number forty-four
on the Ohesapeake and Ohio Canal, and running thence in a
straight direction to the south end of an alley on the extreme
east side of the said town of Williamsport, thence running with
said alley to another alley on the extreme north side of said
town, thence running with said alley to the north end of Cono-
cocheague street, thence with the road leading from Williamsport
to Clearspring to a brickyard on said road, thence with a straight
line to a culvert on the canal next above Eli Beatty's warehouse,
thence with the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to the place of
beginning, at lock number forty-four.

JERUSALEM.

183. The citizens of the town of Jerusalem, in Washington
county, are a body corporate by the name of the " Burgess and
Commissioners of Jerusalem," and by that name may sue and
be sued, and may have and use a common seal.

 

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