CHAPTER 264.
AN ACT to provide for the licensing of guagers of
casks and liquids, for the City of Baltimore, and
providing for the duties thereof.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That any citizen of the State of Maryland,
on application to the Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas, in the City of Baltimore, and on paying one
hundred dollars to the said clerk, shall be entitled to
receive a license to act as guager of casks and liquors
for the term of one year from the date thereof. The
person applying for said license shall, at the time of
receiving the same, take and subscribe before said
clerk an oath that he will honestly and faithfully
discharge the duties of said office.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That no person engaged
in vending or trading in or manufacturing casks or
liquors, individually or as a partner, or as agent,
clerk or employee of a trader, vender or manu-
facturer of said article, or either of them, or any
[other] commissioned officer, shall [not be licensed
to act as guager of casks and liquids.
SEC. 3. And he it enacted. That any person may
sell, export or otherwise dispose of any foreign or
domestic liquors in casks without having the same
guaged by a licensed guager, but in cases of differ-
ence between the buyer and seller as to the quantity,
either party may call in a guager, and his judgment
shall bind the parties.
Sue. 4. And be it enacted, That the guagers shall
procure and use a correct set of guaging instruments,
and as soon as they have ascertained the capacity of
any cask they shall distinctly mark, with marking
irons, the capacity on the bilge near the bung, and
prefix the letter M., for the State of Maryland, and
the first letter of the surname of the guager who
does guaging; 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 injurious portion of sapwood, and not
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Entitled to
receive a
license to act
as guager.
Persons not
eligible.
In cases of
difference be-
tween buyer
and seller.
Guagers to
procure and
use correct.
instruments.
Merchantab'e
casks.
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