GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

real and personal property within said county, agreeably to
the provisions of an act passed at November session, eigh-
teen hundred and twelve, entitled, An act for the valuation
of real and personal property in the several counties of this
State.

CHAP. 119.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners afore-
said be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to
carry into full effect and operation, all the provisions of this
act, as well as the aforesaid act of eighteen hundred and
twelve, that are not repugnant to, or inconsistent with the
provisions of an act, to abolish the levy court, and provide
for the election, by the people, of commissioners for Talbot
county, and prescribing their powers and duties, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and thirty, chapter
thirty eight.

Powers granted.

CHAPTER 119.

An additional supplement to an act, entitled, An act to re-
gulate the Inspection of Lumber, in the city of Baltimore.

Passed Feb. 16, 1832

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That it shall be the duty of the Inspectors of Lum-
ber, now appointed, or who may be hereafter appointed for
the city of Baltimore, to make regular quarterly returns in
the months of January, April, July and October, of the
quantity and kinds of lumber and shingles by them inspect-
ed in each year, said returns to be made to the register of

Inspectors to make
returns.

the city of Baltimore, under a penalty of one hundred dollars
for each neglect, or refusal, to be recovered bofore any just-
ice of the peace of the city of Baltimore, one half to the in-
former, and the other to the state of Maryland.

Penalty for ne-
glect.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That hereafter it shall be the
duty of the said inspectors when they are called upon to in-
spect any plank, or other lumber, which shall have been
measured and marked, and said measurement shall appear to
be incorrect, to cause the same to be obliterated.

To obliterate er-
roneous marks.