1486 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680

tion of said Mayor and City Council by the oath of the party
applying for the same or other satisfactory evidence before
the annual closing of said tax list in each year; and said
Clerk shall further keep a record of all abatements made by
them as aforesaid, and report in waiting the aggregate amount
thereof during the year to the said Mayor and City Council
on or before the first day of December in each year, and said
Mayor and City Council are further authorized and empowered
for the purpose of inducing manufactories and manufacturing
enterprises to locate their works and plant and operate the
same in said City, to contract with the owners thereof to
exempt for a term of years from all municipal taxation all
such property both real and personal as may be actually used,
occupied and employed for said manufacturing purposes; pro-
vided, that such contract shall not provide for said exemption
for a larger period than fifty years, and the said Mayor and
City Council are authorized and empowered to ratify and
confirm any contract made by the said corporation during the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine with the firm of Faust
and Son, to induce them to locate their shoe factory in said
City to the same extent to which said Mayor and City Council
could under this Section have made a valid binding contract
with said firm.

Section 356. The Governor, with the advice and consent
of the Senate, shall appoint biennially an inspector of hay,
straw and cattle for the scales in said City, and it shall be the
duty of said inspector to weigh at said scales all hay, straw,
cattle or other commodities there offered to him to be weighed,
and he shall be entitled to demand and receive for each and
every load of hay or straw weighing thirty hundred pounds and
upwards, fifty cents, and for all loads.......... less, one and

one-half cents per hundred pounds, and a like rate per hundred
pounds for all other commodities; the minimum charge to be
twenty cents, and which sums so received shall suffice as com-
pensation for holding such office to the extent of three hundred
dollars per annum: all sums in excess of said amendment shall
be paid in the treasury of the State.

Section 357. All hay and straw except hay and straw in
bales with their weight marked on said bales brought into
said City for sale and consumption therein, shall be weighed
at said scales; and if any person so bringing hay and straw
therein, except in bales, shall neglect to have the same weighed
at said scales, or shall be detected in having stones, rubbish,