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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Give certifi-

tificate under his hand setting forth the actual gross

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 he may think just or proper ;

but no live stock shall be weighed, sold or purchased,

contracted for or offered for sale on Sunday; any

one weighing, selling or purchasing, or contracting

or offering to buy, sell or weigh any live stock on

Sunday shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five

Penalty for
selling on Sun-

dollars for each one sold or weighed, or purchased or

day.

offered for sale on said day, to be recovered by a

suit before a justice of the peace for the city or

county where such sale, weighing or purchasing shall

be made, one-half to the informer, the other half to

be paid to the State Treasurer, and Thursday shall

hereafter be the regular sale day at said scales.

Approved March 21, 1882.

Chapter 54.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to pay

the claims of James E. Tate, W. L. Pfeiffer and

Edgar Hutton.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the Comptroller of the

Treasury be and he is hereby requested and directed

Directed to

to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer, to pay to

issue warrant.

James E. Tate, for sundries furnished House of

Delegates and Senate, as per order of chief clerk,

four hundred and sixty dollars; to W. L. Pfeiffer,

for furniture furnished by order of chief clerk, one

hundred and twelve dollars; and to Edgar Hutton,

for repairs done and material furnished by order of

the Governor and chief clerk, eighty-one dollars and

forty cents.

SEC. 2 And be it enacted, That this act shall

Effective.

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 21, 1882.