1186 ARTICLE 4.

MARKETS.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 631. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 672.

704. If any person shall buy, or cause to be bought, any kind of vege-
tables, dead meat, poultry, butter, cheese, tallow, eggs or fish, in any of
the markets of said city, or within ten miles thereof, with an intent to sell
the same again in such markets, or city, or within two miles thereof, he
shall for the first offense forfeit the article, or the vaiue thereof; for the
second offense, he shall forfeit the article and be fined four dollars, and
for every other offense forfeit fifteen dollars, to be recovered in a summary
way before a Justice of the Peace; provided, that the purchasing of pork,
beef and fish, by the barrel or other package, butter in firkins, or other
packages not less than fifty pounds, bacon or cheese by the quantity, by
any merchant or shop keeper, and selling the same again in his store or
shop, shall not be deemed or taken as1 an offense against this section.

See Pfeffering v. Baltimore City, 88 Md. 475, in relation to the powers of the city
to regulate and control markets.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 633. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 673.

705. Whenever any person shall be found exposing for sale any of
the articles enumerated in the preceding section, otherwise than in his
store or shop, and there shall be good cause to suspect they have been
purchased contrary to the provisions of the preceding section, it shall
be lawful for any person to apply to a Justice of the Peace for a warrant
to apprehend the person so suspected, and the Justice shall have power
bo inquire into the offense; and if the person suspected be convicted there-
of, or if he cannot make it appear to the satisfaction of the Justice that
he raised or made the articles offered by him for sale, or is disposing of
them on account of the person who raised or made them, or that he bought
the same ten miles or upwards from the City of Baltimore, he shall be
deemed to be an offender against the provisions of the preceding section,
and the fines and forfeitures shall be recovered in a summarry way before
the said Justice.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 634. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 674.

706. All butter sold by the pound in the said markets shall weigh
sixteen ounces avoirdupois weight; and any person bringing butter to the
said markets and offering the same for sale, of less weight than sixteen
ounces avoirdupois, shall forfeit the same, and it shall be seized and taken
by the clerk of the market and sold for the use of the city.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 636. P. L. L, (1888), Art. 4, sec. 676.

707. No charge, tax or fees shall be set, rated or levied upon any per-
son or the property of any person who shall attend any of the markets
of said city with any articles or produce from the country, to vend in said
markets, of his own growth, produce or manufacture, or as the agent of
the grower, producer or manufacturer of the same, unless such person shall