ART. 3.] BALTIMORE COUNTY.

skill, judgment and understanding, execute, do and
perform the office and duty of inspector and corder
of wood, according to the true intent and meaning of
the law of the state relative to the same, so help me
God.

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120. All fire wood (wheresoever purchased) landed
within the limits described in the first section of this
act, shall be inspected and corded by the inspector
appointed under the provisions of this act, and the
said inspector shall be entitled and demand and re-

Ibid B. 3.
What wood to
be inspected.

ceive six-and-a-quarter cents for each cord of fire
wood inspected by him.

Inspector's pay

121. All fire wood landed and sold within the
limits before described in section first of this act,
shall be at least four feet 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 proportionally 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 in-
spected and corded, or shall altar the measurement
thereof, or shall sell the same by any other measure-
ment ; or if any person or persons shall knowingly
purchase or receive any fire wood which has not
been passed by the inspector aforesaid, he shall forfeit

Ibid. s. 4
Measurement.

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 stale, 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.

Penalty.

122. 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 hold-

Ibid. s. 5.
Inspector not
to trade in
wood.