456 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of the limits of the said City, shall forfeit and pay to the Sheriff
of the City the sum of three hundred dollars; said penalty to be
imposed as a fine by the Criminal Court, on presentment and
indictment by the Grand Jury and conviction in due course of
law, and one-third of the penalty shall be paid by the Sheriff
to the informer, and the residue shall be accounted for by the
Sheriff to the treasury as other fines; if any person so licensed
shall be guilty of a fraud by reason of collusion with any par-
ties, he shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall, on
presentment and indictment therefor, and conviction thereof,
forfeit and pay a fine of not less than five hundred dollars or
more than one thousand dollars for every such offence, or be
imprisoned, in the discretion of the court, for a time not exceed-
ing three years, or both, and shall also be liable in damages at
the suit of the party aggrieved.

Hay and Straw.

552. The Governor, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, shall biennially appoint four inspectors of hay and
straw for the City of Baltimore.

553. Each of said inspectors shall give bond to the State
of Maryland, in the sum of two thousand dollars, for the true
and faithful performance of the duties of his office.

554 All hay and straw brought to the City of Baltimore
may be weighed at the State hay scales as now established by
law, by one of the inspectors, at the rate of one hundred pounds
to the hundred weight, making a reasonable allowance for the
moisture thereof, as well as the mud or other substance at-
tached to the wagon, cart or sled containing the same.

555. The inspector shall give a certificate of every load of
hay or straw weighed by him, stating the gross and net weight
of such straw or hay, and wagon, cart or sled.

556. The said inspector shall be entitled to demand and
receive for each and every load of hay and straw inspected by
him, of whatever weight, one cent per hundred weight; and