| 1818.
CHAP. 99.
Inspectors authorised
to discharge
coopers, for neglect,
&c. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the inspector, or
his deputy, in
the city of Baltimore, shall have full power and authority, and he is
hereby authorised and empowered, to discharge any cooper or
coopers employed about the coopering of any barrels, half barrels
or tierces of fish, that he may have to inspect, if in his judgment
the cooper or coopers so employed shall neglect or refuse to comply
with his directions in relation thereto; and any cooper or coopers
who shall refuse to leave the said barrels, half barrels or
tierces, as aforesaid, and shall persist in working thereupon, after
having received his or their discharge from the said inspector, or
his deputy, as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty
dollars for each and every such wrongful act, to be recovered and
appropriated in the same manner as all other fines are recovered
and appropriated in the said original act. |
Masters of vessels
to pay one cent
and a half for
every barrel, &c. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the master or owner
of any vessel
shall hereafter pay to the inspector, or his deputy, one cent and
one half cent, for every barrel, half barrel, or tierce of fish, mentioned
in the certificates required to be by them given, in lieu of
the sum heretofore allowed. |
Inspectors authorised
to brand
barrels containing
mackerel, No. 3. |
5. AND whereas, great abuses have hitherto
proceeded from
branding barrels and other casks containing mackerel No. 2, when
according to their quality they ought to have been branded No. 3,
BE IT ENACTED, in remedy thereof, that the inspector, or his deputy,
for the city of Baltimore, shall be allowed and authorised,
and he is hereby allowed and authorised, to brand any barrels, or
other casks, containing mackerel, No. 3, provided that in his judgment
said mackerel be of a very poor and inferior quality, and the
said No. 3 be a due and fair estimate thereof. |
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Passed Feb. 2, 1819. |
CHAP. C.
An Act relating to the copies of certain Papers from the Land Office.
Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 315. |
Original certificate,
referring to
lines of other
tracts, certified by
register, to be
evidence in any
court. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
a copy of any original certificate in the land office, together with
the notes or illustrations annexed thereto at the time the same was
returned into the land office, referring to the lines of other tracts
of land, certified by the register under his hand and the seal of his
office, shall be evidence in any court of law or equity in this state,
in the same manner, and have the same effect, as if it were the
original paper, and proved to be in the hand writing of the surveyor
by whom the original survey was made, and that the said surveyor
was dead. |
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Passed Feb. 3, 1819. |
CHAP. CI.
An Act for the relief of the Infant Children of Joseph Stewart,
late of
Anne-Arundel County, deceased. Lib. TH. No.
6, fol. 315. |
Levy authorised
for their support. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the justices of the levy court of Anne-Arundel county, be and they
are hereby directed, at their next levy court, and so long after as
they shall see fit, to levy and assess annually, on the assessable
property of said county, a sum of money not exceeding thirty dollars,
for the support and maintenance of the infant children of the
said Joseph Stewart, deceased, and that the same be collected annually
by the collector of Anne-Arundel county, and paid to Larkin |
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