| 1801.
CHAP. 63.
Penalty on justices
neglecting
their duty. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
35. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if either of the
said two justices
of the peace shall omit or neglect the duty enjoined and required,
as to making the contracts, and taking and lodging the bonds aforesaid,
he shall forfeit and pay the sum of sixty dollars. |
| Sums to be allowed. |
36. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any sum of money
the said
two justices aforesaid may contract for as aforesaid, shall be allowed
in the next county assessment after the performance of such
contract, and shall be deducted out of the money arising due for
the rent of the warehouse, for which such money may be paid, until
the county shall be fully reimbursed. |
Levy court authorised
to execute
so much of
this act as relates
to building and
repairing warehouses,
&c. |
37. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court of
each respective county shall have full power, at all times of the
year, to put in execution so much of this act as relates to building,
enlarging and repairing, public warehouses, or the purchase of
warehouses, and to direct the making of wharves, the building, enlarging
and repairing, any warehouses for the respective inspections
appointed in virtue of this act, from time to time, as to them shall
seem necessary; and in case the proprietor, guardian or attorney of
the proprietor, of any warehouse, or any other person concerned
therein, shall refuse or neglect to make such buildings, additions,
repairs, or other necessary conveniencies, as shall or may be wanting
at any other times of the year, and such as the said justices shall
direct, it shall and may be lawful for the said justices, and they are
hereby required, to have the same done at the expense of the county;
and the justices of such county shall receive so much of the rent
of the said warehouse of the inspectors, which they are hereby directed
to withhold from the proprietors, and obliged to pay to the
justices, as will reimburse the county the charges of such buildings,
additions and repairs; and if upon application of the inspectors to
the justices aforesaid, for building, enlarging or repairing, any
warehouses or wharfs, such justices shall refuse or delay to do
their duty therein, every justice, so refusing or neglecting, shall
forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars. |
Levy court to receive
rents of certain
warehouses. |
38. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases under
the late inspection
law, where the owners or proprietors of warehouses have
given the same up to be repaired at the expense of the county, or
where warehouses have been built at the expense of the county,
and the rents already received have not reimbursed the money advanced
in building or repairing such warehouses, the justices of
the levy courts of the said counties shall receive the rents of all
such warehouses from the inspector or inspectors, under the present
act, until the whole money advanced as aforesaid, and interest thereon,
shall be repaid, and they are hereby authorised to allow, out of
the sums so received, such compensation to the proprietor of any
land on which such warehouse may stand, as they in their discretion
may think right and proper, not exceeding twenty dollars per
year. |
New inspectors
their duties. |
39. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when and as often
as a new inspector
or inspectors shall be appointed in the place of the inspector
or inspectors who served at the same warehouse the preceding year,
the said new inspector or inspectors shall, within ten days after he
or they shall be qualified to serve as an inspector or inspectors, make
out two fair manifests in writing, signed by such new inspector or
inspectors, of all the tobacco then in the same warehouse, (which |
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