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JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
deposite or pledge, unless such person or persons, body or bodies
politic or corporate, shall have contracted for the said goods,
wares, or merchandise, or received the same in deposite or
pledge, without a knowledge that such agent or factor had no
authority to sell or deposite the same. |
Residents of
this state excepted
from
this act. |
9. And be it enacted, That nothing
in this act contained, shall
be construed to relate to, or affect in any way, any principal or
principals, or any owner or owners, proprietor or proprietors
of any goods wares or merchandise, who shall reside within this
state. |
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Passed Feb.
27, 1826. |
CHAPTER 183.
A supplement to the act entitled, an act for the improvement of McClure's
Dock, in the city of Baltimore. |
Interdiction;
penalty. |
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland,
That from and after the first day of March next, it shall not
be lawful for any vessel drawing more than eight feet or of
greater breadth of beam than twenty feet, or having a deck
cargo making a width of more than twenty feet, to enter
McClure's dock in the city of Baltimore; and if any vessel of
either of the above descriptions shall enter the said dock, the
master or owner of the same shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars
for such entry, and shall moreover forfeit the further sum
of ten dollars per day for every day the said vessel shall remain
in said dock, the said forfeitures to be recovered before a justice
of the peace, in the same manner that small debts are recoverable,
one half to the informer, and the other half for the benefit
of the owners of the property on said dock, or of such of them
as may in the opinion of the said justice be injured by the entry
of said vessel. |
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2. And be it enacted, That every thing
contained in this
act, applicable to vessels, or the owners or masters thereof, shall
be construed to apply to boats, scows, rafts, arks, and the owners
or masters thereof. |
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Passed March
1, 1826. |
CHAPTER 184.
A supplement to the act, entitled, An act relating to the City Baltimore. |
Documents
made legal
evidence. |
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in
all actions now brought, or hereafter to be brought in any court
of equity or law in this state, and in all cases of warrants for any
debet or penalty, under any of the ordinances of or in the name
of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, or on an appeal
from the judgment of any justice of the peace of this state, a
certified copy, under the seal of the mayor and city council of |
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