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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 262.

AN ACT to appropriate the sum of five hundred

dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary,

for the purchase of a lot in Havre-de-Grace, and

the erection thereon of scales suitable for the

weighing of hay, straw, cattle, and other commod-

ities.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the sum of five hundred dollars

Purchase lot.

($500) be and the same is hereby appropriated, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, lor the purchase
of a lot in the town of Havre-de-Grace, suitable and

convenient for the erection of scales thereon for the

weighing of hay, straw, cattle, and other commodi-

ties.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That Robert R. Van-

diver, Edward Hall and Washington W. Hopkins,

Commis-
sioners.

be and are hereby appointed commissioners with
authority to select and purchase a lot in the town of

Havre-de-Grace, and thereon to have erected scales

and fixtures necessary for the weighing of hay, straw,

cattle and other commodities, and for so doing are

to expend the said sum hereinbefore named, the title

to said lot to be vested in the State of Maryland,

and for which sum the Comptroller shall issue his

warrant to the Treasurer, the amount of which is

to be paid to said Commissioners on their certificate

of such purchase, but the whole amount of money

herein appropriated shall suffice for the payment for

said lot and the erection and equipment of the scales

.

aforesaid.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That upon the

Certify to

completion and erection of said scales the said Com-

completion

missioners, or a majority of them, shall certify said

fact to the Governor, who shall thereupon appoint an

inspector of hay, straw and cattle, for said scales, to

Term of ap-

hold his office for two years from the date of his ap-

pointment.

pointment, or until his successor is appointed ; the

Governor, with the advice and consent of the Sen-

ate, shall renew said appointment bi-ennially, and it