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CHAP. 158.
Repeal. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any law or laws
authorising the
clerk and register to keep their offices at a different place, inconsistent
with, and repugnant to this act, be and the same is hereby
repealed.
See 1801, ch. 98, and 1804, ch. 102. |
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Passed Jan. 30, 1817. |
CHAP. CLIX.
An Act for the benefit of Thomas H. Bowie, Register in Chancery.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 301. A Private Act. |
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Passed Feb. 1, 1817. |
CHAP. CLX.
An Act to prevent the Fraudulent Sales of Flour and Whiskey. Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 302. |
Penalty for giving
any sum below
market price for
flour, &c. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the first day of March next if any person shall give,
or promise to give, to any driver or person having charge of any
wagon, or other carriage, any sum or sums of money, or goods of
any description, for the purpose of obtaining flour or whiskey, entrusted
to the care of such driver or person having the charge or
care thereof, at any price below the market price of the day, or
shall wilfully make out any bill or bills for the same, without stating
the full amount paid, or promised to be paid, to such wagoner
or person having care thereof, shall forfeit and pay a sum of money
not exceeding fifty and not less than twenty dollars, one half
to the use of the informer, and the other half to the use of the person
injured, to be recovered before any justice of the peace in the
same manner as small debts are recovered out of court. |
—On drivers receiving
money as
an inducement for
selling below market
price. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any driver or
person having
charge of any wagon, or other carriage, shall take or receive any
sum or sums of money, or goods of any description, from any
person or persons, as an inducement for selling any flour or whiskey
under the market price of the day, and not make return
thereof to the proper owner or owners of such flour or whiskey,
and the facts thereof being proven before any justice of the peace
in any town or county within this state, he shall pay to the person
injured double the amount of the sum so received, and shall moreover
pay a fine not exceeding twenty and not less than five dollars,
one half of which fine to the person prosecuting for the same, and
the other half to the use of the poor of the county in which the
case is heard, to be recovered as debts of equal amount are by law
recoverable out of court. |
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Passed Jan. 31, 1817.
* 1807, ch. 100. |
CHAP. CLXI.
A Further Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act for the Opening
of Bridge Street, in the Eastern Precincts of
the City of Baltimore.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 302.
This act appears to be repealed by 1817, ch. 85. |
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Passed Feb. 1, 1817. |
CHAP. CLXII.
An Act to widen a part of Bridge Street in the City of Baltimore.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 304. |
Street may be
widened. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the city commissioners of Baltimore be and they are hereby authorised
and required, to widen Bridge-street in said city, thirty |
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