FINES AND FORFEITURES
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FIRE
 
 
 
 
 

FISH AND FISHERIES
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FLOUR

—Other persons or corporations buying or selling
such bank notes for a less price in gold or silver, &c.
to forfeit double the value,
    Persons or corporations, (other than the banks or the
exporter or manufacturer,) buying any gold or silver 
coined for a price in bank notes higher than the nominal
value thereof, to forfeit double the value of the 
coin,
    Banks or their officers selling gold or silver coined
for a price more than the standard value, to forfeit double
the amount,
—Persons or corporations demanding of any of the
banks gold or silver with intent to make sale thereof,
or to obtain a premium, to forfeit double the amount of
the gold, &c.
—The forfeitures to be recovered by action of debt
in the name of the state and the informer, or by indictment,
one half to go to the informer,
—Commitment authorised, &c. to enforce payment,
    Fine on sheriffs receiving into the public gaol any
negro slave unless committed in due course of law, $500
—To be recovered by indictment or debt, half to the
informer, and half to the state,
    Fine on persons not being licenses as therein directed,
acting as brokers in buying and selling bank notes
and lottery tickets, for each offence 2000 dolls.
—To be recovered by action of debt, one half to him
who shall sue, and the other to the state,

    NOTE.  By the 9th section of the  act of June 1780, ch. 8," for sinking
the quota required by Congress of this State of the Bills of Credit emitted
by Congress," all fines, forfeitures and amerciaments, &c. were directed
to be received by the sheriffs, and to be by them annually paid into
the treasury.

    Baltimore Equitable Society, for insuring against;
regulating concerning their meetings,
    Insurance Company incorporated in the city of 
Baltimore, &c.
    Removal of prisoners in case of sudden fire,
    The Hager's-town Fire Company, in Washington
county, incorporated,

    An act for the preservation of the breed in Great
Choptank river,
    Directions concerning the inspection of salted fish
exported from Have-de-Grace,
    Vessels prevented from anchoring in the fisheries in
Susquehanna and at the head of Chesapeake bay, unless
by stress of weather,
    Penalty on persons destroying the fish in any branch
or creek in Baltimore county, by putting quicklime
therein, and punishment of slaves,
    The act of 1796, ch. 32, for the preservation of the
breed of fish in Patuxent river, repealed,
    Declared unlawful to erect pots, or other devices as
therein described, for taking fish in the Susquehanna,
so as to impede the navigation,
—Penalty on persons offending,

    The inspection of salted fish regulated in the city
of Baltimore, &c.

    An act relating to the inspection of flour, &c. in the
precincts of the city of Baltimore,
    Penalty on persons mixing corn meal, or other flour,
with wheat flour, for sale as such, or sending the
same out of the state for the purpose,
    See Crimes, Fines, &c.
    An act to prevent the fraudulent sales of flour, &c.

  1818      191    2
 
 

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  1801        35
  1807        68
  1808        48
  1809      125    5

  1815      133
 

  1800        21

  1805        40

  1807      114
 

  1810        36

  1811      169

  1813        91
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  1817      114
                170
  1818        99
 

  1803        83

  1805        82

  1816      160