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CHAP. 125. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
for every offence, to be recovered before a justice of the peace
for Baltimore county, in the name of the state, and in the same
manner that small debts are now recovered, and the money thus recovered
shall be applied, one half to the informer, and the other
half to the register for the use of the said city. |
Wagons loaded
with hay not to be
restrained to any
particular part of
the city.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be
lawful for the
mayor and city council of Baltimore, by ordinance or otherwise,
to restrain wagons or carts loaded with hay or straw to any particular
part of the city, as a hay-market, but such wagon or cart
shall have liberty to seek a market through the same, by driving to
any part of the said city; Provided, that nothing in this act shall
be construed in any way to authorise the stopping of hay wagons
or carts in the streets so as to interrupt the free intercourse through
the same, or to drive a wagon or cart on Sunday in said city. |
Penalty for giving
below the market
price for hay. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That from and after
the first day of
May next, if any person in the city of Baltimore 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 hay or straw intrusted
to the care of such driver or person having the charge or care
thereof, at any price below the market place 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 nor 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 a justice of the peace as herein provided, in
the same manner as small debts are recovered out of court. |
If corporation
neglects to provide
scales, any person
may erect them. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said mayor
and city council
shall omit to provide the scales in the manner herein before provided,
that then and in that case it shall and may be lawful for any
person to erect such scales, and take and receive, for the weighing
thereof, the like sum as is provided by this law, subject to the like
penalties and duties as are contained herein. |
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Passed Feb. 5, 1819. |
CHAP. CXXVI.
An Act authorising Marsham Parker, former Sheriff of Calvert
County, to complete his Collections. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol.
338.
See 1816, ch. 223, and 1817, ch. 201. |
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Passed Feb. 5, 1819. |
CHAP. XCVII.
An Act to prevent Swine from going at large in the Town of Salisbury.
Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 338. |
Swine going at
large may be impounded. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the constables of Salisbury and Wicomico
hundreds, in Somerset and Worcester counties, and they
are hereby directed, to seize and impound all swine which may be
found going at large in their respective hundred within the limits
of the town of Salisbury, and immediately to give notice, by advertisements
set up in the most public places in said town, describing
the swine so impounded, and their marks, and also the time
and place appointed for selling such swine. |
No sale to be made
until notice has
been given. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no sale of any
swine impounded
as aforesaid, shall be made until notice hath been given as aforesaid |
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