| 1789.
CHAP.
VIII. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
offer to such assessors, their objections (if any they have) against
any advance
being at that time made in the weight of bread. |
No alteration
to be made,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That after any assize of bread shall be set in pursuance
of this act, no alteration shall be made therein, either to raise the
same higher,
or to sink the same lower, unless the price of flour shall be returned
as having
rose one shilling and three-pence per hundred weight more than the
last return
made, or having fallen one shillings and three-pence per hundred weight
lower
than the said last return. |
Bread to be
marked, &c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That every person and persons who shall make any
loaf-bread of wheat flour for sale in any of the places aforesaid,
shall mark all
the bread he shall bake with his name, and with the following letters,
to distinguish
the several sorts, that is to say, the fine white bread with F, and
middling
bread with M; which several sorts of bread shall be made in the manner
following: The fine white bread of the best fine white flour,
and the middling
bread of good middlings, and the loaves of such bread shall be a penny
loaf or
roll, a two-penny, a four-penny, a six-penny, an eight-penny and a
twelve penny
loaf, and no other. |
Penalty on
selling bread
not sufficiently
baked, &c. |
V. And be it
enacted, That if any person or persons whatsoever shall, after the
first appointment of assessors in any city or town within their respective
counties,
make for sale, sell or expose to sale, any of the several sorts of
bread aforesaid,
within the places aforesaid, which shall not be sufficiently baked,
or marked with
the mark, and of the weight and fineness, directed by this act, every
such person or
persons offending in the premises shall forfeit all such bread so deficient
in weight
or fineness, and not marked as aforesaid; and that it shall and may
be lawful to and
for the clerk of the market, or such person or persons as the aforesaid
assessors
shall respectively appoint, at least twice in every month, to examine
and weigh
all such bread, and to seize, for the use of the poor of the county,
all such as
they shall find deficient in weight or fineness, and not baked or marked
as aforesaid;
and if any baker, or other person, shall refuse to suffer the clerk
of the
market, or the person or persons appointed as aforesaid, to enter his
house, or
other suspected place, to examine and weigh his bread, he shall forfeit
and pay
the sum of five pounds current money for every such offence, and the
clerk of
the market, or person or persons appointed as aforesaid, shall have
one third part
of such penalty for his trouble, and shall deliver the other two thirds
to the overseers,
or other managers, of the poor of the place or county where such penalty
shall be incurred, for the use of the poor. |
Bakers aggrieved
may
appeal, &c. |
VI. And be it
enacted, That if any baker shall conceive himself aggrieved by
the seizure of bread as aforesaid, he may appeal to any justice in
the place where
the dispute shall happen, who thereupon shall issue his warrant to
three indifferent
and judicious persons, directing them to view the said bread, and make
report to
him according as they shall find the same, and the said justice shall
thereupon
proceed to give judgment on the said report, or the report of any two
of them,
and if it shall appear to the said justice that the said bread was
justly seized, the
baker thereof shall pay the sum of ten shillings current money, to
the use of the
poor of the place where the said bread was seized; but in case the
said bread,
upon trial, shall be found of due weight and fineness, and marked and
baked as
this act directs, it shall be returned to the baker, and such baker
shall thereupon
be exempted from all costs arising in consequence of such complaint,
which shall
be paid by the town or county wherein such examination shall be made;
and if
any person purchasing bread, shall find it deficient in any of the
particulars above
mentioned, he or she may make complaint thereof, within one day after
the said
bread shall be so purchased, to any justice aforesaid, who is hereby authorised
and
required to hear and examine such complaint; and if the said bread shall
be
deficient in any of the said particulars, the baker thereof shall be adjudged
to pay
five shillings current money for every such offence, and be thereupon committed
to the common gaol, without bail or mainprize, until he pay the same; which |
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