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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Baltimore, and which he shall be called upon to view,
examine, and inspect, to
the best of his skill and knowledge, and that no flour shall be passed
or branded
by him, without his viewing and examining the same; that he will not brand,
or
cause to be branded, any cask or casks of flour, that
do not appear, to the best
of his skill and knowledge, to be in all respects sufficiently clean, sweet,
and
merchantable; and that he will pass and brand all such cask or casks of
flour as
shall appear to him sufficiently clean, sweet, and merchantable, according
to the
degree thereof, to the best of his skill and knowledge,
and according to the directions
of this act; and that he will not, wittingly or willingly,
charge, ask, take,
receive, exact, or demand, any other or larger fees or rates, for doing
his duty in
his office as inspector or flour, than is mentioned and directed by this
act; and
that he will carefully and diligently view and examine all casks in which
such
flour shall be brought and contained; and that he will not pass or brand
any cask
or casks of flour, unless such cask or casks be of such size, goodness,
and thickness,
as by this act is required. |
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17. AND BE IT ENACTED, That
no inspector of flour shall purchase, directly or
indirectly, any flour by him condemned as aforesaid, or any flour whatsoever,
other than for his own family use, under the penalty of forty shillings
current money
for each barrel by him purchased. |
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18. AND BE IT ENACTED, That
if any person shall alter the mark stamped on
any barrel of flour by any inspector, or shall mark or brand any barrel
of flour
which hath not been inspected, with any mark or brand similar to, or in
imitation
of, the inspector's said mark or brand, or after the said inspector shall
have passed
any barrel of flour as merchantable, shall pack into the cask which contains
the same, any other flour; or after any barrel of flour shall be branded
with a
broad arrow, shall unpack and repack the same into other casks or packages,
for
exportation out of this state, such person shall forfeit and pay the sum
of forty
shillings current money for every barrel. |
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19. AND BE IT ENACTED, That
the said commissioners, or the major part of
them, shall be and are hereby empowered, at any time, to displace or remove
the said
officer from his office, if the said commissioners or the major part of
them shall
see cause, and shall and may nominate and appoint another
fit person to such office
during the residue of the year, who shall have power to execute the same
office
according to the directions of this act, on his taking the said oath of
office. |
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20. AND, whereas great quantities
of flour are brought by water to the said
town of Baltimore, and it being very inconvenient to land the same for
inspection:
BE IT ENACTED, That the inspector of flour appointed by this act shall,
and is
hereby directed, at the request of any person who shall bring above fifty
casks in
any one vessel, to go on board such vessel in the harbour of the said town,
and
inspect the said flour on board, under the penalty of twenty shillings
current money
for every neglect or refusal. |
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21. AND, whereas it may sometimes
happen, that by reason of great quantity
of flour being brought at once to Baltimore-town, the person who shall
be
appointed inspector of flour cannot alone, with sufficient despatch, inspect
and
brand all such flour, and as it is apprehended that the most likely means
to support
the credit of the inspection brand is to make one inspector answerable:
BE
IT ENACTED, That the person to be by the commissioners, or the governor
and
council., as aforesaid, chosen and appointed inspector of flour, shall
or may, on
such occasions only, or in case of sickness, employ one or more persons
of good
repute, and well qualified for such service, as assistants to assist him
in the execution
of his said office; and such assistants, after taking the oath or affirmation
herein prescribed to be taken by the inspector of flour, are hereby authorised
to
inspect and brand any barrels of flour at Baltimore-town, as the inspector
himself
might do. |
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22. AND BE IT ENACTED, That
before any of the said officers shall enter upon
the execution of their respective offices, they shall take the several
oaths to government
appointed by law. |
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23. AND BE IT ENACTED, That
all and every the penalties and forfeitures in
and by this act set and appointed, shall be recovered
before a single magistrate,
as in case of small debts, in the name of the commissioners of the town,
and be by
them laid out and expended in mending the public wharfs
and streets in the said
town. |
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24. AND BE IT ENACTED, That
so much of the act, entitled, An act to prevent
the exportation of flour, staves and shingles, not merchantable, from the
town of
Baltimore, in Baltimore county, and to regulate the weight of hay, and
the measure
of grain, salt, flax-seed, and fire-wood, within the
said town, and to prevent
the exportation of flour not merchantable from Fell's-Point in the said
county,
made and passed at a session of assembly, begun and held at the city of
Annapolis
on Wednesday the second day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand
seven hundred and seventy-one, as respects the exportation of flour, be
and remain |
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