HARFORD COUNTY. 2981

such abatement shall be made and verified to the satisfaction of said Mayor
and City Council by the oath of the party applying for the same or other
satisfactory evidence before the annual closing of said tax list in each
year; and said Clerk shall further keep a record of all abatements made
by them as aforesaid, and report in writing the aggregate amount thereof
during the year to the said Mayor and City Council on or before the first
day of December in each year, and said Mayor and City Council are fur-
ther authorized and empowered for the purpose of inducing manufac-
tories and manufacturing enterprises to locate their works and plant and
operate the same in said City, to contract with the owners thereof to
exempt for a term of years from all municipal taxation all such property
both real and personal as may be actually used, occupied and employed
for said manufacturing purposes; provided, that such contract shall not
provide for said exemption for a larger period than fifty years, and the
said Mayor and City Council are authorized and empowered to ratify
and confirm any contract made by the said corporation during the year
eighteen hundred and eighty-nine with the firm of Faust and Son, to
induce them to locate their shoe factory in said City to the same extent
to which said Mayor and City Council could under this Section have
made a valid binding contract with said firm.

Power Co. v. Havre de Grace, 102 Md. 38.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 356.

347. The Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall
appoint biennially an inspector of hay, straw and cattle for the scales
in said City, and it shall be the duty of said inspector to weigh at said
scales all hay, straw, cattle or other commodities there offered to him to
be weighed, and he shall be entitled to demand and receive for each and
every load of hay or straw weighing thirty hundred pounds and upwards,
fifty cents, and for all loads............ less, one and one-half cents per

hundred pounds, and a like rate per hundred pounds for all other com-
modities; the minimum charge to be twenty cents, and which sums so
received shall suffice as compensation for holding such office to the extent
of three hundred dollars per annum; all sums in excess of said amend-
ment shall be paid in the treasury of the State.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 357.

348. All hay and straw except hay and straw in bales with their weight
marked on said bales brought into said City for sale and consumption
therein, shall be weighed at said scales; and if any person so bringing hay
and straw therein, except in bales, shall neglect to have the same weighed
at said scales, or shall be detected in having stones, rubbish, wood or any-
thing else concealed in his load, or shall in any manner change the con-
dition of his cart or wagon with a fraudulent intent, he shall forfeit and
pay for each and every such offense the sum of five dollars upon convic-
tion thereof before any Justice of the Peace, to be recovered in the man-
ner that small debts are now recovered.