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provided, that the purchasing of pork, beef and fish, by the
barrel or other package, butter in firkins, or other packages
not less than fifty pounds, bacon or cheese by the quantity, by
any merchant or shop keeper, and selling the same again in his
store or shop, shall not be deemed or taken as an offence against
this section.

705. Whenever any person shall be found exposing for sale
any of the articles enumerated in the preceding section, other-
wise than in his store or shop, and there shall be good cause to
suspect they have been purchased contrary to the provisions
of the preceding section, it shall be lawful for any person to
apply to a Justice of the Peace for a warrant to apprehend the
person so suspected, and the Justice shall have power to inquire
into the offence; and if the person suspected be convicted
thereof, or if he cannot make it appear to the satisfaction of the
Justice that he raised or made the articles offered by him for
sale, or is disposing of them on account of the person who raised
or made them, or that he bought the same ten miles or up-
wards from the City of Baltimore, he shall be deemed to be an
offender against the provisions of the preceding section, and
the fines and forfeitures shall be recovered in a summary way
before the said Justice.

706. All butter sold by the pound in the said markets shall
weigh sixteen ounces avoirdupois weight; and any person
bringing butter to the said markets and offering the same for
sale, of less weight than sixteen ounces avoirdupois, shall for-
feit the same, and it shall be seized and taken by the clerk of
the market and sold for the use of the City.

707. No charge, tax or fees shall be set, rated or levied
upon any person or the property of any person who shall at-
tend any of the markets of said City with any articles or pro-
duce from the country, to vend in said markets, of his own
growth, produce or manufacture, or as the agent of the grower,
producer or manufacturer of the same, unless such person shall
occupy some place or stand in some of said market-houses;
provided, such person or agent be not a resident of said City.