FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 93.

AN ACT to add a hew section to article four of the Code of

Public Local Laws, title "City of Baltimore," sub-title

"Inspections, Weights and Measures" under sub -division

of said sub-title, "Live Stock" to come in after section

five hundred and six, and to be called five hundred and

six A, relating to the sale of the State cattle yard and

scales.

WHEREAS it is now demonstrated that the State cattle

yards and scales have ceased to be self -sustaining, and that

Preamble.

in view of the consolidation of the Calverton cattle yards

and the Claremont cattle yards into one organization, under

the name of the Union cattle yards, and the competition of

such company, a continuance of the operation of the State

cattle yards and scales, will certainly result in a pecuniary

loss to the State, without furnishing to the people needed

facilities for weighing cattle, therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That a new section to be known as section five

New

hundred and six A, be added to the Code of Public Local

section.

Laws, title "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Inspections,

Weights and Measures," under sub-division "Live Stock"

to follow section five hundred and six, relating to the sale

of the State cattle yards and scales, and to read as follows :

Five hundred and six A. The Board of Public Works in

the State is authorized and empowered after proper public

notice inserted in two daily papers published in Baltimore

Board;

City for three weeks, to sell on such terms as the said board-

of Puplic
Work may-

may decide to the highest responsible purchaser, the State

sell cattle

cattle yards and scales, including all lands appurtenant to

yards

the same and owned by the State ; provided in their dis-

cretion an adequate price is offered for the same, and if no

adequate price is offered for said property, the said board

may at such time or times as they may deem proper advertise

again the said property for sale in the manner provided for

in this act, and the said board are hereby authorized and

directed to execute in due form the necessary papers to convey

to the purchaser the legal title for said cattle yards and

scales, and the Governor is hereby empowered in his dis-

cretion to close said scales, and the office or position of weigh

master shall cease.

Approved March 15th, 1892.