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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of the death,
refusal to
act, or removal from the city of Baltimore or precincts, of any of
the commissioners appointed by this act, that the levy court of Baltimore
county be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to
appoint a fit and proper person to fill up such vacancy, and so from
time to time to fill up vacancies, that the said commissioners may
have perpetual succession for ever thereafter.
See 1805, ch. 19. The commissioners to fill up any vacancy. |
1803.
CHAP. 44.
How vacancies are
to be filled
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6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
of said market,
or a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised and empowered,
from time to time, to appoint a fit and proper person as
clerk of said market, who, before he takes upon himself the execution
of said office, shall enter into bond to the commissioners, with
two securities to be approved of by the said commissioners, or a
major part of them, conditioned for the due and faithful discharge of
the said office of clerk of the market, and that he will render, when
required by said commissioners, or a major part of them, a just and
true account of all such monies as he shall receive by virtue of his
office, and that he will pay and apply such monies, so received, as
the commissioners of said market for the time being, or a major
part of them, shall order and direct. |
Clerk to be appointed
--to give bond. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said clerk
of the market, so
appointed as aforesaid, be and he is hereby fully empowered, under
the direction of the commissioners, to rent or hire out the stalls and
shambles (a) in said market-house, and he is hereby directed to
keep a fair and just account of the profits arising from the rents
aforesaid, and also of all such fines and penalties which he shall
collect and receive, and the same apply as the commissioners, or a
major part of them, shall direct, for the benefit of said market; and
the said clerk shall be allowed, out of the funds of said market, at
the discretion of said commissioners, not exceeding two hundred
dollars per annum; and the said clerk, before he enters upon the
duties of his said office, shall take an oath, or make affirmation, before
some justice of the peace for baltimore county, that he will justly,
truly and impartially, perform and execute the several duties
required of him as clerk of said market.
(a) See 1811, ch. 18. |
Stalls and shambles
may be rented
by clerk--his
allowance. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk of said
market shall
have sufficient power and authority to take care and charge of the
market and market-house aforesaid, and also to try and adjust the
weights and measures used at said market by standards to be provided
and kept there for that purpose, and when false and untrue
weights or measures are discovered, to seize and dispose of them at
the next public market-day to the highest bidder, and the money
arising from such sale to apply to the use of said market-house, under
the directions of the commissioners, or a major part of them. |
His powers. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be
lawful for any person
whatever wilfully to lead, ride or drive, into the said market-house,
any horse, mare, gelding or other beast, or to kill or slaughter
in said market-house any beef, sheep, calf or hog, under the
penalty of one dollar for every such offence, to be recovered by
warrant before a single magistrate as in case of small debts, to be
paid to the said clerk of the market, to be applied for the use of said
market, as the said commissioners, or a major part of them, shall
direct. |
Penalty on persons
putting horses,
&c. or slaughtering
in market-house. |
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