GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

Sec. 6. And it be enacted. That in such inspection it shall

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be the duty of the inspector, to carefully examine each side

of every hide, and each calfskin, and ascertain whether the
same is injured or damaged, by reason of any holes, cuts,

To examine for
holes.

slashes, or wounds, it may have received in the process of

Provide stamps.

skinning, or from any other cause; he shall provide proper

stamps, and legibly stamp the butt of each side of every

Stamp directed.

hide, and each skin, inspected, with the letter or figures

G. 1,2, or 3, and so on, as the judgment of the inspector

shall dictate, and as the same shall, upon such inspection,

appear to be more or less injured, or not injured at all.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That those sides and skins

Qualities defined.

which, upon inspection, shall be found free from injury, shall

be stamped 'G.' and be taken for good, merchantable and

prime; those injured from the cause aforesaid, five cents,

shall be stamped 'l'; those injured ten cents '2'; those in-

jured fifteen cents '3'; and so on, increasing the number of

the stamp one, for every additional five cents of injury

which the side or skin may have sustained, which sum thus

indicated by the number of the stamp, shall be deducted

by the purchaser from the value of the side or skin so stamp-

ed, had the same been good, prime and merchantable.

Sec. 8. And be it enacted. That the inspector shall ap-

Deputy inspector.

point, not exceeding two, deputies, who may perform all

the duties, and shall be subject to all the liabilities created,

and take the oath prescribed, by this act.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That the said inspector shall

Fees for inspecting

receive for inspecting each hide, four cent, and for each

calf skin two cents, and no more, to be paid by the pur-

chasers of hides and skins.

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of

Notification re-

all purchasers of hides and calf skins, subject to inspection

quired.

by this act, to notify the inspector, of the place at which

such hides and skins will be collected by him from the

butchers, and where he must attend to inspect the same.

Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That each purchaser of hides
and skins, subject to inspection, shall provide himself with

Labels containing
name of butcher.

a number of labels, containing the name of the butcher

from whom he may purchase, which shall be firmly fasten-

ed to each hide and skin at the time it is received from the

butcher, and remain so fastened until the same is inspected,

and an account of the inspection thereof taken; and if any

person shall wilfully remove, obliterate or destroy any such

Penalty fur remov-

label so attached as aforesaid, with intent to defraud the

ing, &c.

seller, any butcher or other person, he shall, on conviction,
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by line

or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court be-

fore whom the conviction was had