1826

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 13fc

seventeenth section of this act, within two months after such
subscription on the part of said states and city; and the said
states- and said city, may each- elect three directors, and the pro-
prietors of said Susquehanna Canal Company may, if they elect
to take stock in said company, choose one director, and these
directors shall be chosen annually, but shall hold their office
until a new appointment by the state, city or proprietors, on
whose part they were appointed, and shall be chosen, on the
part of the states, by the legislature of the same, on the part of
the city of Baltimore by the city council, ami on the part of the
proprietors of the Susquehanna canal, by a majority in value of
the same, and shall be chosen in the manner which said legisla-
tures, council or proprietors, may respectively prescribe to them-
selves; that these directors, or a majority of them, shall choose
a president from amongst themselves, who shall be chosen at
least every third year from and amongst the directors appoint-
ed on the part of the state of Pennsylvania, and the president of
such board of directors shall have a casting vote whenever the
board are equally divided upon any question; and the said pre-
sident and directors shall have all the rights, powers and privi-
leges, and perform all the duties of the president and directors
of the Pennsylvania and Maryland canal company, given or cre-
ated by this act, in order to the construction of said canal, and
shall exercise or discharge the same in the manner previously
prescribed by this act; and if at any time hereafter the said sub-
scription shall be found insufficient to the completion of said
canal, the said states may provide by law for opening books to
receive additional subscriptions of stock in order to its comple-
tion, in which preference may be given to subscriptions on the

Assent of Pennsyl-

vania

part of the said states, city or proprietor.
24, And be it enacted. That if the absent of the legislature
of Pennsylvania to this act shall not bo obtained on or before
the first day of January, of the year one thousand eight hundred
and twenty-height, then this act, and ail the provisions thereof
shall be utterly null and void.

Passed Mar 2, 1827

Appointment of
inspectors

CHAP. CXXXVII,
An Act authorising the Governor and Council of this State to appoint In-
spectors of Salted Fish for the City of Baltimore, and for other purposes.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of
the council, appoint and commission, on or before the first Mon-
day in April next, and annually thereafter two persons of in-
tegrity, skilful in the goodness, quality, and well curing of salt-
ed fish, to be inspectors for the city of Baltimore, and by whom
all salted fish, hereafter brought to the city of Baltimore for
sale, shall be inspected.

Act repealed as
relates to payment
for license

2. And be it enacted. That any part of the arts of assembly
which compels the inspectors of salted fish in said city to pay a
license of seventy-five dollars each, to the corporation of Bal-
timore, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Penalty on others
than inspectors
marking fish

3. And be it enacted, That if any person in the city of Bal-
timore, other than the two inspectors appointed by the governor
and council, shall inspect mark or brand, any fish in said city,