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shall be subject to the penalty of five dollars for each offence;
one-half of the penalty to go to the informer; said penalty to be
recovered before some Justice of the Peace.

597. The two preceding sections shall not apply to the
measurement of sawed and split wood.

598. If any owner of a cart or vehicle to be used in hauling
fire-wood in the City of Baltimore shall neglect to have such
cart or vehicle so inspected, and if any carter or person shall
alter the marks of said carts or vehicles after the same have been
so inspected, or shall alter the measurement of said fire-wood
by increasing or taking from the same, or neglect to have said
carts or vehicles stamped, as provided for in this sub-division of
this Article, by the first day of June of each year, or if any dealer
shall sell the aforesaid cord or sawed and split wood to any
cart or vehicle not properly stamped by the measurer or his
deputies, provided for by this sub-division of this Article, he
shall be subject to the penalty of five dollars for each offence,
to be recovered as small debts are now recovered, before some
Justice of the Peace, for the use of the City of Baltimore.

599. In case of dispute between the purchaser and seller of
any lot of fire-wood, the measurer or his deputy, appointed
under this sub-division of this Article, may act as arbitrator be-
tween said parties, and his decision shall be final; for which ser-
vices he shall receive the sum of six and one-quarter cents for
each cord of wood so inspected and measured by him, to be
paid by the party at whose request said service was performed;
the said measurer or deputy to give a certificate of the number
of cords contained in each lot.

TONES'S FALLS.

600. None of the provisions of this Article in reference to
constructing sewers and opening and paving streets in the City
of Baltimore shall apply to the construction of the sewers, and
to the opening and paving of the streets and avenues for which
provision is made in this Article relating to Jones's falls, save in
so far as the said provision may be made applicable thereto by