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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
until such silver plate, or manufactures of silver, shall be respectively
stamped with the initials aforesaid. |
DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 131. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when any parcel
of silver plate,
or any manufacture of silver, brought to be touched, assayed, and
marked as aforesaid, be found to be of a coarser allay than the
standard aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the assayer to cut, break
or deface, such silver work or manufacture so brought to be touched,
assayed and marked, and shall return the same so cut, broken
or defaced, to the worker or maker of the same, and shall make
an entry in his books of the species and weight of each parcel so
cut and defaced by him, and the name or names of the person or
persons to whom such silver plate or manufacture did belong, and
there shall nevertheless be paid for the assaying of the same, such
rates or pieces as are herein before limited for assaying and marking,
as if such parcel of plate had been really marked. |
Alloyed plate may
be defaced by assayer. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons, bodies
politic or corporate, shall at any time or times be sued, molested
or prosecuted, for any thing by him or them done or executed in
pursuance of this act, or of any clause, matter or thing, herein
contained, such person or persons, and bodies politic and corporate,
shall or may plead the general issue, and give the special matter
in evidence, for his or their defence; and if upon the trial a verdict
shall pass for the defendant or defendants, or the plaintiff or plaintiffs
become nonsuited, then such defendant or defendants shall
have treble costs awarded to him, her or them, against such plaintiff
or plaintiffs. |
Suits being instituted
special matter
may be given
in evidence. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing contained
in this act
shall be construed to affect the sale or disposition of silver plate,
or manufactured silver, of the estate of any deceased person or
persons, which shall have been used by such deceased person or
persons in his, her or their lifetime. |
Plate now in use
not to be affected
by this act. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all fines not
exceeding fifty
dollars, incurred under the provisions of this act, shall be recovered
before a justice of the peace as small debts are recoverable, in
the name of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, the one half
thereof to the said mayor and city council of Baltimore, for the
use of the city, and the other half for the use of the informer; and
all fines exceeding fifty dollars imposed by this act, shall be recovered
by action of debt in the county court in the name of the
mayor and city council of Baltimore, the one half thereof to the
said mayor and city council of Baltimore, for the use of the city,
and the other half thereof to the use of the informer. |
Fines, how to be
recovered. |
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CHAP. CXXXII.
An Act for the aid of the Baltimore General Dispensary. Lib.
TH.
No. 4, fol. 168.
See 1807, ch. 110. |
Passed Jan. 28, 1814. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Elias Glenn, Robert Barry, Owen Dorsey, John Frick, Alexander
Fridge, Thomas Finley, George Hoffman, David Harris, Peter
Hoffman, Fielding Lucas, junior, George Myers, Maxwell McDowell,
John McKim, junior, Robert Patterson, Samuel Sterrett, Henry
Schroeder, junior, James Sterrett, James Wilson, David Warfield,
or a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised to raise |
Lottery authorised
—sum to be raised. |
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