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returned by him, to be paid by the party applying for each license;
but the failure of said sheriff to give the notice herein directed
shall not excuse any neglect to obtain a license as required by the
public general laws.

MARINERS AND CHARITABLE MARINE SOCIETY OF
BALTIMORE.

P. L. L, (1860,) art 4, sec. 630.

670. Whenever a mariner residing in or sailing to or from
the port of Baltimore shall depart this life intestate, and leaving
no relations within the fifth degree, to be reckoned by counting
down from the common ancestor to the more remote, the whole
surplus estate of such mariner, after paying debts, funeral ex-
penses and cost of administration, shall devolve on and become
the property of the charitable marine society of Baltimore.

MARKETS.

P. L. L, (1860,) art. 4, sec. 631.

671. The mayor and city council have power to erect and
regulate markets.

Ibid. sec. 632.

672. If any person shall buy, or cause to be bought, any kind
of vegetables, dead meat, poultry, butter, cheese, tallow, eggs or
fish, in any of the markets of said city, or within ten miles
thereof, with an intent to sell the same again in such markets or
city, or within two miles thereof, he shall for the first offence
forfeit the article, or the value thereof, for the second offence,
he shall forfeit the article and be fined four dollars, and for every
other offence forfeit fifteen dollars, to be recovered in a summary
way before a justice of the peace; provided, that the purchasing
of pork, beef and fish, by the barrel or other package, butter in
firkins, or other packages not less than fifty pounds, bacon or
cheese by the quantity, by any merchant or shop keeper, and
selling the same again in his store or shop, shall not be deemed or
taken as an offence against this section.

Ibid. sec. 633.

673. Whenever any person shall be found exposing for sale
any of the articles enumerated in the preceding section, otherwise