DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
same; and when the said road shall have been completed,
it shall be considered a public road, and kept in repair as
-other county roads are.
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1830.
CHAP. 138.
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CHAPTER 138.
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An Act to provide for the appointment of Inspectors
and Measurers of Lumber, and the Cording of Fire-
wood, in the Town of Salisbury, in Somerset and
Worcester Counties, and at Tony-Tank Landing,
and their vicinities.
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Passed Feb 22
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Section I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the governor and council be and they
are hereby required, to appoint three or more suitable per-
sons as inspectors and measurers of lumber, and corders of
fire wood, for the town of Salisbury, and at Tony- Tank
landing, and their vicinities, whose duty it shall be, when
called on by any seller or purchaser of any lumber or fire-
wood, to inspect and measure the same forthwith.
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Inspectors to
be appointed.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That each of the said in-
spectors and measurers of lumber, and corders of fire- wood,
are hereby directed and required, to make such deductions
on all lumber and fire- wood, for mildews, bad, hollow or
rotten, knots, splits, bad sawing, waney edges, rots or
dotes, as he in his judgment may think to be proper and
just.
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Deductions
may be made.
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the
said inspectors, or any one of them, to charge and receive
for each one hundred feet of lumber which he may inspect
and measure, two cents, as a compensation for the same,
and four cents for each and every cord of fire-wood which
he may be called on to pass or measure, which said com-
pensation, as the case may be, shall be paid by the pur-
chaser, and on neglect or refusal of the purchaser to pay
the same, the inspector is hereby authorized to collect the
same as other small debts are collected.
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Allowance.
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Sec. 4. And be it enacted. That before any inspector
or measurer, who may be appointed under this act, shall
proceed to inspect and measure lumber, or fire-wood, he
shall take the following oath: I, A. B. do swear on the
Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that 1 will measure and
inspect lumber and fire-wood without favour or partiality,
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Oath.
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