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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

factory to the said board, for the period of four

years, said rental to be paid quarterly, and said

lease to be made upon such conditions, as to keeping

the said property in good condition and repair, as

the said Board of Public Works shall deem necessary.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said article four

of said Public Local Laws, title '' City of Baltimore,"

sub-title " Live Stock," be further amended by re-

pealing and re-enacting as amended sections four

hundred and sixty, four hundred and sixty-one, four

hundred and sixty-two, four hundred and sixty-three

Further
amended.

and four hundred and sixty nine, as the said last

mentioned section was amended by the act of eigh-

teen hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hun-

dred and twenty-eight, and by repealing and re-

enacting as amended section four hundred and

seventy, as amended by the act of eighteen hundred

and sixty-four, chapter three hundred and twenty-

eight, so that said sections shall read as follows :

SEC. 460. All beef cattle and hogs, and other live

stock brought for sale or slaughter within the cor-

May be

porate limits of the city of Baltimore, or within five

weighed.

miles of said limits, at the option of the owner

thereof, or his agent, may be weighed by said weigh-

in aster.

SEC. 461. The said weighmaster shall, upon any

day in the week, except Sunday, weigh all live

stock that may be offered for weighing at the live '

stock scales for that purpose, and shall give a certifi-

cate, under his hand, setting forth the actual gross

Give certifi-
cate.

weight of any number of cattle or hogs, or any other
live stock so weighed by him, to their owner, or his

agent, making such allowances, in the nature of tare,

on account of any dirt, mud, filth or any other mat-

ter adhering to the same, as he may think just or

proper.

SEC. 462. He shall charge and collect for the use

Changes for

of the State, or after the lease of the cattle scales,

weighing.

for the use of the lessees of the State cattle yards

and scales, for weighing any live stock, except sheep,

two cents for every hundred weight, and one cent -

per head for every sheep; and for every second and