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Governor to
appoint In-
spectors of
steam boilers.
Duties of.
Give bond.
City divided
into districts.
Governor to
assign dis-
trict.
To provide
themselves
with an office
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 153.
AN ACT to provide for the inspection of steam
boilers in the City of Baltimore.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Governor shall, within thirty
days from the passage of this Act and biennually
thereafter, appoint two suitable persons who are
well skilled in the construction and use of steam en-
gines and boilers and in the application of steam
thereto, whose duty it shall be to inspect steam
boilers in the City of Baltimore, as hereinafter speci-
fied and directed; said Inspectors before entering on
their duties shall make oath, before a Justice of the
Peace, that they will faithfully perform the duties of
their office without fear, partiality or favor; that
they are not, and will not during their term of office,
be connected with or interested in the manufacture
of steam boilers, engines or machinery applicable
thereto, and that they will not during their term of
office accept any money, gift, gratuity or considera-
tion from any person or persons, and shall give bond,
to be approved by the Comptroller of the State, in
the sum of five thousand dollars each for the faith-
ful discharge of their duties.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the City of
Baltimore be, and is hereby, divided into two dis-
tricts, which shall be known as the first and second
steam boiler inspection districts; the first district
shall embrace what is now known as the eastern and
southern police districts; the second shall embrace
what is now known as the middle and western po-
lice districts of said city, and the Governor in ap-
pointing the inspectors shall assign each to his re-
spective district.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the inspec-
tors, before entering on the discharge of their duties,
to hall provide themselves with an office in a central
part of said city, also with the necessary apparatus
and appliances for the testing of steam boilers, and
they shall give notice for three successive days,
through the two daily papers having the largest cir-
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