1831

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 209.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That Baltimore city couit
shall have jurisdiction of the offences and exercise the pow-
ers conferred by this act as in cases arising within the city

Compesation to
lattices of peace
for criminal cases
in Baltimore.

of Baltimore.
Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the justices of the peace
in the city and county of Baltimore, for their services in any
criminal proceeding or in reference to any criminal charge
or complaint, shall be entitled to compensation, to be deter-
mined and fixed by the commissioners of Baltimore county,
as the case may be, and to be levied and paid as constables
are now paid for services in criminal cases.

Article, employed
in attempting re-
lease of prisioners
forfeited.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That any money, bank notes,
or chattel property employed, used, or attempted to be
used, or introduced, within or about the buildings, yards, or
enclosure of the penitentiary of this state, for the purpose of
rescuing, or procuring the release of any convict confined
in said penitentiary, shall be forfeited thereby, to the use of
this state; and the directors of said penitentiary may and
shall take possession thereof, and appropriate the same by
sale or otherwise to the use of this state, in the business of
said penitentiary, and they shall institute and prosecute any
suit or suits in the name of the state, that may by them be
deemed or found necessary for the recovery or forfeiture of

Proviso,

such money, bank notes, or property; Provided always, that
nothing in this act contained, shall be construed so as to
forfeit any money, bank notes or property, heretofore so in-
troducee or employed, and not then forfeitable, but the said
directors may, in their discretion, deliver the same to any
person or persons, whom they shall think best entitled
thereto, or to his, her or their attorney.

CHAPTER 209.

Passed Mar.10,1832

A supplement to the act, entitled, An act to authorise the Go-
vernor and Council of Maryland, to appoint the Inspec-
tors of Flour for this state, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and twenty -five, chapter one hundred and
seventy-four.

Appointment of
an inspector au-

thorised.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That on or before the first day of June next, the
governor and council shall appoint one inspector of flour
for the city of Baltimore, in addition to the three inspectors
now appointed, and thereafter there shall annually on or
before the first day of May, be appointed by the governor