1836.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 266.
Sale without
weighing pro-
hibited

the ton, and no anthracite or hard coal, or bituminous
coal shall be sold within the city aforesaid, unless the
same shall have been first weighed or measured by one
of the weighers and measurers appointed by the Govern-
or and Council, by virtue of this act.

Inspection of
Bituminous

SEC. 3. And be if enacted, That all bituminous coal
hereafter sold within the city of Baltimore, shall first
be inspected and measured by one of the weighers and

Prescribed

measurers aforesaid, whenever the sale and purchase
shall exceed throe bushels, and the same shall be mea-

Measures

sured in measures to be provided by the said weighers
and measurers, to contain the quantity of three bushels
of bituminous coal.

Compensation

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said weighers
and measurers shall be entitled to receive, demand and
to recover by action at law in the name of the State
for their use, before any single justice of the peace,
the sum of twelve and an half cents for each ton of an-
thracite or hard coal by them respectively weighed,
and the sum of one half cent for each and every bush-
el of bituminous coal by them respectively measured,

Penalty for via
lating

to be paid by the seller of the same, and if any person
shall violate the provisions of this act, by selling any
anthracite or hard coal, or bituminous coal, before the
same shall have been weighed or measured as the case
may be, he or they so offending shall forfeit and pay a
penalty of five dollars for each and every offence, the
same to be recovered upon information, before any
justice of the peace, one half thereof to the use of the
informer, and the remainder to the State.

CHAPTER 266.

Passed Mar. 18,
1837.

A supplement to an act to authorise the recording of a
certain deed of sale and manumission, passed Decem-
ber Session, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, chapter
two hundred and eighty-two.

Record directed

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the bill of sale, and the deed of manumission
mentioned in the act to which this is a supplement,
may be recorded at any time before the first day of Oc-
tober next, and when recorded shall have the same