DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1828

keepers of ordinaries also, any thing in the said original
act to the contrary hereof, or of the enactments of this sup-
plement, notwithstanding.

CHAP. 85.

CHAP LXXXVI

A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to appoint
Commissioners for the regulation and improvement
of Chester-Town, in Kent County, and for other
purposes.

Passed Feb 27, 1829

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That no person shall be elected a commissioner of
Chester-town, or hold the said office, unless he shall at the
time be above the age of twenty one years, and shall own
real property in the said town, in his own right, or in right
of his wife, and shall reside in Chester-town.

Quilifications of

commissioners

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That so much of the origi-
nal act, to which this is a supplement, repugnant to, or in-
consistent with, the provisions of this act, be and the same
is hereby repealed.

Repeal

CHAP. LXXXVII.

A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to authorise
the Governor and Council of Maryland to appoint the
Inspectors of Flour of this State, passed at December
Session eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter one
hundred and seventy-four.

Passed Feb 27, 1829

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall
not be lawful for any inspector to condemn any flour barrel,
or half barrel, which can, in his opinion, be repaired at a
reasonable expense, and it shall be the duty of the several
inspectors of flour for this state, under the penalty of five
dollars for each barrel, in all cases where they pronounce a
barrel or half barrel to be unmerchantable, and capable of
being made merchantable, to direct the said barrel to be re-
paired at the expense of the owner or owners, his, her or
their agent, stating at the same time by a certificate of the
inspector who may have inspected the said barrel, the brand
and cooper's mark, with the defect or defects of the same,
and whether the cause of such defect or defects is, in hifl
opinion, owing to the neglect of the cooper, wagoner, mil-
ler, or otherwise, as the case may appear to the said inspect-
or, together with the necessary costs of repairing the said
barrel, which said certificate, so prepared, shall be delivered
by the said inspector to the owner or owners, his, her or
their agent.

Barrels may be re-

paired