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in length, including one-half of the kerf, and shall be set up,
packed and corded, that every cord of wood shall be eight feet
in length, four feet in breadth and four feet high, well stowed
and packed, and when the wood exceeds or falls short of four
feet in length, including half the kerf, the cord shall be pro-
portionally increased or diminished, so as to make the quantity
of each cord as nearly equal as possible; and if the vender or
purchaser refuse to have said fire wood so inspected and corded,
or shall alter the measurement thereof, or shall sell the same by
any other measurement; or if any person or persons shall
knowingly purchase or receive any fire wood which has not
been passed by the inspector aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the
sum of two dollars per cord, and so in proportion for a less
quantity of wood so sold and delivered by him or them, to be
recovered in the name of the State, one-half to the use of the
informer, the other half to the State, before a Justice of the
Peace, in the same manner as small debts are now recoverable
by law.

10. No one engaged in vending or trading in wood, or as
partner, or as clerk, or agent for a trader or vender of wood,
shall be appointed inspector or corder, nor shall any inspector
or corder while holding his office be so engaged, directly or
indirectly, and the Governor may summarily dismiss or remove
from office such inspector or corder, on receiving satisfactory
proof of a violation on his part of the provisions of this act.

It. Any person not duly appointed under the provisions of
this act, who shall act as such inspector or corder of fire wood
within the limits before described, shall forfeit and pay the sum
of two hundred dollars, the said penalty to be imposed on the
conviction of the offender on an indictment in the Circuit Court
of Baltimore county, one-half to the use of the informer, the
other half of the State.

12. The inspector or corder appointed under the provisions
of this act, shall, on the receipt of his commission, pay to the
Treasurer of the State the sum of twenty-five dollars, and at the
expiration of one year from the date thereof, an additional