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CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

Baltimore, or which shall be sent therefrom, sold or
unsold, either by land or water, to any other place,
whether manufactured within the limits of said city
or elsewhere, shall first be inspected, passed and
branded, or otherwise distinctly marked by one of
the flour inspectors for the city of Baltimore, unless
the same shall previously have been duly inspected,
passed and branded, or otherwise distinctly marked
by a flour inspector in Frederick city, or Williams-
port, or in Havre-de-Grace ; and every person who
shall offer for sale in Baltimore city, or shall send
therefrom, sold or unsold, to any other place, any
barrel or half barrel of wheat flour, of rye flour, or
of corn meal, which shall not have been inspected,
passed, branded, or otherwise distinctly marked as
aforesaid, by a flour inspector as aforesaid, shall for-
feit and pay for each and every offence, the sum of

Proviso.

five dollars ; provided, nevertheless, that wheat flour,
rye flour and corn meal, passing through said city as
freight, in transitu to another part of the United
States, shall not be liable to such inspection.

Ibid. B. 2.
Penalty for
erasing inspec-
tion marks.

314. If any person other than an inspector of
Sour, duly authorized to act as such, shall erase,
remove, deface or alter, or cause to be erased, re-
moved, defaced or altered, the brand or other mark,
or any material part of the brand or other mark,
heretofore placed or which hereafter may be placed,
by any inspector of flour, duly authorized to act, on
any barrel or half barrel of wheat flour, or rye flour,
or corn meal, he shall forfeit and pay, for each and
every offence, the sum of five dollars.

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Ibid. B. 3.
Standard
weight of flour.

315. The standard weight of every barrel of wheat
flour, of rye flour and of corn meal, shall be one hun-
dred and ninety-six pounds, over and above all tare,
and of every half barrel, ninety-eight pounds, over
and above all tare ; and that the tare of every barrel
and every half barrel containing wheat flour, rye
flour or corn meal, offered for inspection, shall be
truly and plainly marked thereon, and in case the
tare shall be falsely maked on any barrel or half