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1835.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND
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in, from which an average shall be made of the cul-
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CHAP. 253.
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lings in each bundle, and the number of good and cul-
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lings as per average marked on each bundle in red
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Compensation
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chalk figures, and as compensation for the same, the
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inspector shall receive ten cents per thousand.
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Penalty for oblit-erating
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if any person or
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persons shall be convicted of obliterating or wantonly
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destroying such mark, or of mixing after inspection
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other shingles with a fraudulent intent, he, she, or
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they shall be fined a sum, not exceeding fifty dollars
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for each and every offence, to be recovered by indict-
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ment in Baltimore city court, and collected as other
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fines are collected in this State, one half for the use of
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the informer and the other for the use of the State.
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Inspection of flouring plank
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all quartered boards
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or planks, of pitch or yellow pine, of one inrh or one
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inch and a quarter in thickness, or all such as is manu-
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factured for flooring shall be marked and designated,
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by the inspectors aforesaid, into three qualities, as
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follows, the first quality to be free from sap, knots,
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windshakes or other defects, and also to he at least one
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inch and a quarter in thickness, and shall be marked
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with its contents in board measure, the second quality
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to be sound boards, not having more than four knots of
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not more than an inch in diameter, in any one board or
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plank, and all sap boards that are not mildewed, shall
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be marked with two straight marks near the mark of
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quantity, to designate its quality; and all other boards,
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which the inspector shall determine not to be suffici-
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ently free from defects, to pass as second quality, shall
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be marked as cullings.
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