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CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

next ensuing, to divide the city of Baltimore into as
many districts for the purposes of this act, as there
are wood-corders appointed for the said city, making
the said districts as nearly equal as may be with re-
gard to the quantity of fire wood usually landed or
deposited therein, at wharves, wood-yards or other
places of deposit in the city of Baltimore for the
purposes of sale.

Ibid s.4,
Mayor to assign
districts

554. It shall be the duty of each and every wood-
corder in the city of Baltimore to repair to the office
of the mayor tnereof on the first Monday in May
next,' and every other Monday thereafter at such
hour as the said mayor shall designate; at which
time the said mayor shall assign to each wood-cor-
der the district in which he shall act during the
next two weeks, so that the said wood-corders may
act in rotation in the said districts, and no wood - corder shall serve in the same district for more than
two weeks in succession.

Ibid. s. 5
Penalty for in-
specting out of
district.

555. If any wood-corder shall inspect or cord wood
in any other district than that to which he may be
appointed for the time being by the said mayor,
except in the unavoidable absence of another wood-
corder from his proper district, and with the consent
of the mayor, such wood-corder so inspecting or
cording wood shall forfeit and pay the sum of two
dollars per cord for every cord of wood so inspected
or corded by him, and so in proportion for any less
quantity ; the said penalty to be recovered by suit in
the name of the state of Maryland ; one-half for the
use of the informer, the other half to the state of
Maryland.

Ibid s. 6
What to be in-
spected and
how-.

556. All fire wood brought by water or railroad
to the city of Baltimore for sale, shall be set up,
packed and corded under the direction of one of the
inspectors or wood-corders appointed under this act, '
and if either the purchaser or seller shall refuse to
have said wood so inspected and corded, or after the
same has been inspected and corded, shall alter the
measurement thereof, or sell the same by any other