1829.
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. 223.
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the United States collector the original manifests
of said tobacco,
make oath that he believes said parcels to contain no
greater quantity than that set forth in the said manifests.
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Marks required.
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted,
That the exporter of any such parcels
of tobacco shall mark them with the weight they contain,
under oath, the state in which the tobacco was grown, and
the number of the manifest of the hogshead from which the
same may have been taken.
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Clerk prohibited
to deal in tobacco.
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Sec. 4. And be it enacted,
That no clerk, or other person,
employed by any of the inspectors of tobacco in any tobacco
warehouse, shall directly or indirectly, during their continuance
in said employment buy or receive any tobacco, by way
of barter, loan, or exchange, or in any way intermeddle with
or busy himself in procuring tobacco to be sold or consigned
to any merchant, or in loading any vessel with tobacco, except
the tobacco of such clerk, under the penalty of sixteen
dollars for every hogshead of tobacco so bought, or received,
or procured to be sold or consigned, contrary to this act;
which penalty shall be recoverable before a justice of the
peace, in the same manner as small debts are or shall be recoverable
out of court, one half to the informer, and the other
half the use of the state.
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Clerks salary.
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Sec. 5. And be it enacted,
That the salary of the clerk to
each inspector of tobacco in the city of Baltimore, shall hereafter
be five hundred dollars per annum.
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Change of outage.
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Sec. 6. And be it enacted,
That nothing herein contained
shall be construed to abate the charge for outage.
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Passed Mar. 1, 1830.
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CHAPTER 224.
An act to confirm the proceedings and extend the time for making
a Road in Baltimore County.
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Proceedings confirmed.
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Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the
proceedings and decision of the Commissioners of Baltimore
county, upon the application of James Carroll, junior, and
Thomas C. Ristean, to open a new road from a point on the
old Harford road, near Cromwell's Bridge, to the Harford
turnpike, be and the same are hereby ratified and confirmed;
notwithstanding the said road was not completed and rendered
passable within the time prescribed by law: and the said
James Carroll, junior, and Thomas C. Ristean, are hereby
allowed the further time of four months, from the first day of
March next, to complete the same; and when the said road
shall have been completed, it shall be considered a public road,
and kept in repair as other county roads are.
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