JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 307

CHAPTER 183.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments
sections one, three, four and five, of chapter forty-
six, of the Code of Public Local Laws, passed at
the January session of eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-six, entitled an act to regulate the sale of
firewood in the city of Baltimore ; for the better
protection of the produce dealer and consumer.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That sections one, three, four and five,
of chapter forty-six, of the Code of Public Laws,	Repealed and
passed at the January session of eighteen hundred	re-enacted.
and seventy-six, be and the same are hereby repealed,
and the following re-enacted in lieu thereof:
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Governor shall biennially appoint, by and with the consent of the Senate, one competent person, whose duty it shall be to measure	Governor shall bienni- ally appoint.
and stamp all carts or vehicles engaged in hauling
cord wood from wharf and yard within the corporate
limits of the city of Baltimore ; and it shall farther
be the duty of the said measurer to measure and	Duty of meas-
stamp all carts or vehicles engaged in hauling sawed	urer.
and split wood, for the purpose of selling the same within the corporate limits of the city of Baltimore;
the said measurer to have power to appoint deputies if he should find it necessary to facilitate the work ;
the said measurer or his assistants to give certificate	Give certifi-
to the owner or owners of said carts or vehicles,	cate.
which shall hold good for one year from date ; all
such certificates to terminate on the first day of May
annually, and shall be applied for on said day, or
within thirty days thereafter, and in all cases where
said certificate shall not have been renewed within
the thirty days aforesaid, a new certificate shall be
necessary, to be dated and paid for from the first day	Dated and
of May, as in case of renewal, unless some repairs or	paid for.
alteration be necessary to change the same, for which services he shall receive the sum of one dollar for
each cart or vehicle so inspected and marked by him,