|
|
14
|
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
|
|
|
|
|
CHAPTER 9.
|
|
|
|
|
AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and thirty-
|
|
|
|
|
four of article thirty of the Code of Public Gen-
|
|
|
|
|
eral Laws, entitled " Crimes and Punishments,"
|
|
|
|
|
sub-title " Millers Mixing Flour," as amended by
|
|
|
|
|
the act of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight,.
|
|
|
|
|
chapter three hundred and seventy-five, and to-
|
|
|
|
|
re-enact the same with amendments, by adding-
|
|
|
|
|
Somerset county.
|
|
|
|
|
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
|
|
|
|
|
bly of Maryland, That section one hundred and
|
|
|
|
|
thirty-four of article thirty of the Code of Public
|
|
|
|
|
General Laws, entitled "Crimes and Punishments,"
|
|
|
|
Repealed and
|
sub-title " Millers Mixing Flour," be and the same
|
|
|
|
re-enacted.
|
is hereby repealed and re-enacted as amended by
|
|
|
|
|
the act of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, chap-
|
|
|
|
|
ter three hundred and seventy-five, so as to read as
|
|
|
|
|
follows :
|
|
|
|
|
134. No master, owner, miller or other person
|
|
|
|
|
properly belonging to or otherwise owning any mill
|
|
|
|
|
within this State shall ask, demand or receive for
|
|
|
|
To receive
one-eighth.
|
grinding any quantity of wheat, Indian corn or rye,
above one-eighth part of every bushel of wheat, In-
|
|
|
|
|
dian corn or rye by him so ground as aforesaid,
|
|
|
|
|
under the penalty of fifty dollars for every such
|
|
|
|
|
offence, one-half to the use of the State and the-
|
|
|
|
|
other half to the informer, to be recovered in the
|
|
|
|
|
name of the State by action of debt before any jus-
|
|
|
|
|
tice of the peace as other small debts are recovera-
|
|
|
|
|
ble. In St. Mary's, Wicomico, Somerset and Wor-
|
|
|
|
|
cester counties, the sixth may be taken for grinding-
|
|
|
|
|
rye and corn.
|
|
|
|
|
Approved February 17, 1880.
|
|
