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ROBERT EDEN, Esq; Governor.
have and receive of the purchaser or seller of the said hay, who shall
require the
same to be weighed, the sum of two shillings current money for every ton
or twenty
gross hundred weight of hay, and no more, and so pro rato. |
1771.
CHAP.
XX. |
XXXI. And be
it further enacted, That the said inspector of flour, measurers
of grain, salt and flax-seed, cullers or garblers, and counters of staves,
heading and
shingles, and hay weighers, shall inspect or weigh all flour, measure all
grain, salt
and flax-seed, cull and count all staves, heading and shingles, and weigh
all hay,
as they and each of them shall be reasonably requested, from time to time,
under
the penalty of ten shillings current money for every neglect or refusal. |
Penalty on
neglect or refusal
of the
officers. |
XXXII. And be
it further enacted, That the said wood corder shall cord all
such wood as they shall be requested, from time to time, to cord, under
the penalty
of two shillings and six-pence current money for every neglect or refusal
to cord
such wood as aforesaid. |
Penalty on
neglect of
wood corders. |
XXXIII. And
be it further enacted, That all and every the penalties and forfeitures,
in and by this act set and appointed, shall be recovered before a single
magistrate, as in case of small debts, in the name of the commissioners
of the said
town, and be by them laid out and expended in mending the public wharfs
and
streets in the said town. |
How to be
recovered. |
XXXIV. And be
it further enacted, That the said commissioners, or the major
part of them, shall be and are hereby empowered, at any time, to displace
or remove
any of the said officers from their respective offices, if the said commissioners,
or major part of them, shall see cause, and shall and may nominate and
appoint another fit person to such office during the residue of the year,
who shall
have power to execute the same office according to the directions of this
act, on
his taking the said oath of office. |
Commissioners
may displace
officers,
&c. |
XXXV. And,
whereas great quantities of flour are brought by water for sale at
the said town of Baltimore and Fell's-point, and it being very inconvenient
to land
the same for inspection; Be it enacted,
That the inspector of flour, appointed by
this act, shall, and is hereby directed, at the request of any person who
shall bring
above fifty casks in any one vessel, to go on board such vessel in the
harbor of
the said town or at Fell's-point, and inspect the said flour on board,
under the penalty
of twenty shillings current money for every neglect or refusal. |
Inspector to
go on board
vessels, &c. |
XXXVI. And,
whereas it may sometimes happen, that by reason of a great
quantity of flour being brought at once to Baltimore-town and Fell's-point,
the
person who shall be appointed inspector of flour cannot alone, with sufficient
dispatch,
inspect and brand all such flour, and as it is apprehended that the most
likely means to support the credit of the inspection-brand is to make one
inspector
answerable; Be it enacted, That the
person to be by the commissioners chosen
and appointed inspector of flour, shall or may, on such occasions only,
or in case
of sickness, employ one or more persons of good repute, and well qualified
for such
services, as assistants, to assist him in the execution of his said office;
and such
assistants, after taking the oaths or affirmations herein prescribed to
be taken by
the inspector of flour, are hereby authorised to inspect and brand any
barrels of
flour at Baltimore-town or Fell's-point, as the inspector himself might
do. |
And may employ
assistants. |
XXXVII. And
be it enacted, That before any of the said officers shall enter
upon the execution of their respective offices, they shall take the several
oaths or
affirmations appointed by law to be taken to the government, and repeal
and subscribe
the oath of abjuration and the test before some justice of the peace. |
Officers to
take the oaths,
&c. to the
government. |
XXXVIII. This act to continue seven years,
and unto the end of the next
session of assembly which shall happen after the end of the said seven
years.
Continued for seven years by the act
of October, 1778, ch. 15; notwithstanding which act, the act of
October, 1780, ch. 36, ordains, that this act be revived and continued
for seven years, &c. That act of
October, 1780, however, contains the following clauses by way of addition
to this act. |
Continuance. |
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