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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
bringing or sending, or brought or sent as aforesaid, to the said
town, or within one mile thereof, (except as before excepted,) under
the penalty of ten shillings current money, with costs, (if a
free person,) to be recovered, paid and applied, as aforesaid. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 109. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
or persons shall
hereafter presume to slaughter or butcher any cattle kind, sheep or
hogs, in or near about the said market-house, that he or they, so
doing, shall forfeit and pay seven shillings and six-pence current
money for every such offence, to be recovered, paid and applied,
as aforesaid, with costs aforesaid. |
On persons butchering
any cattle,
&c. in or near
market-house. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
or persons shall
sell, or offer for sale, any meat within the said market which shall
be blown, unsound or unwholesome, in such case it shall and may
be lawful for the clerk of the said market to seize all such meat sold
or offered for sale in the said market, and the same to condemn
and sell, and the money arising from such sale to be applied by the
said commissioners as aforesaid. |
Meat unsound or
unwholesome to
be condemned. |
13. AND, whereas it may be practised by the
people coming in
from the country to tie their horses in the said market-house, which is
very indecent, and offensive to the inhabitants of the said town,
BE IT ENACTED, That any person or persons who shall, after the
time aforesaid, put their own or any other person's horse, mare or
gelding, into or under the said market-house, on any pretence
whatsoever, he or they shall pay or forfeit two shillings and six-pence
current money, with cost, to be recovered, paid and applied,
as aforesaid. |
Penalty on persons
putting horses,
&c. into market-house. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all fines, forfeitures
and penalties,
imposed by this act, shall be recovered by warrant, before
any justice of the peace for Washington county, or of the county
where the transgressor shall reside, with costs of warrant, in the
name of the commissioners aforesaid; and it is hereby declared to
be the duty of the clerk of the said market to take the trouble of
recovering the same. |
Fines and penalties,
how to be recovered. |
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
or persons shall
be sued for any thing done in virtue of this act, the suit shall be
brought within six months from the commission of the act, and not
afterwards, and the defendant or defendants in any such suit may
plead the general issue, and give this act and the special matter in
evidence. |
General issue
pleadable. |
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CHAP. CX.
An Act to alter and change the place of holding the Election for
the
first election District in Montgomery County.
Lib. TH. No. 2,
fol. 284.
See 1805, ch. 97. |
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general
assembly, by the
petition of sundry voters in said election district, that the present
place for holding the elections is attended with many inconveniencies
for the want of better accommodations, and prays that the place
for holding said elections may be changed; the prayer of the petitioners
appearing reasonable and proper, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Richard Green, Samuel Robertson and George Wolf, be and are
hereby appointed commissioners to ascertain what place the elections
for said district shall be held hereafter. |
Commissioners appointed
to ascertain
place for holding
elections. |
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