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CHAP.
CIX.
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IX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no inhabitant of the said town, or other person, shall presume
to buy, or cause to be bought, of any person or persons being and within one mile thereof, or having
brought any kind of victuals or provisions whatsoever to the said market for sale, (except as before
excepted, ) either upon the above stated market-days, or any other day of the week, during the time
of the stated market-houses, at any other place whatsoever, but at or in the aforesaid market-houses,
under the penalty of twenty shillings current money, to be paid to the commissioners aforesaid, to
be applied as is by this act directed.
X. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no person whatsoever, after the time aforesaid, bringing or send-
ing, or having brought or sent, any provisions or victuals to the said town for sale, shall presume to
sell, or cause to be sold, the said victuals or provisions for bringing or sending, or brought or seat
as aforesaid, to the said town, or within one mile thereof, (except as before excepted, ) under the
penalty of ten shillings current money, with costs, (if a free person, ) co be recovered, paid and ap-
plied, as aforesaid.
XI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or persons shall hereafter presume to slaughter
or butcher any cattle kind, sheep or hogs, in or near about the said market-house, that he or they,
so doing, shall forfeit and pay seven shillings and six-pence current money for every such offence, to
be recovered, paid and applied, as aforesaid, with cost aforesaid.
XII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or persons shall sell, or offer for sale, any meat
within the said market which shall be blown, unsound or unwholesome, in such case it shall and may
be lawful for the clerk of said market to seize all such meat sold or offered for sale in the said mar-
ket, and the same to condemn and sell, and the money arising from such sale to be applied by the
said commissioners as aforesaid.
XIII. AND, whereas it may be practised by the people coming in from the country to tie their horses
in the said market-house, which is very indecent, and offensive to the inhabitants of the said town,
BE IT ENACTED, That any person or persons who shall, after the time aforesaid, put their own or
any other person's horse, mare or gelding, into or under the said market-house, on any pretence
whatsoever, he or they shall pay or forfeit two shillings and six-pence current money, with cost, to
be recovered, paid and applied, as aforesaid.
XIV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all fines, forfeitures and penalties, imposed by this act, shall
be recovered by warrant, before any justice of the peace for Washington county, or of the county
where the transgressor shall reside, with costs of warrant, in the name of the commissioners afore-
said; and it is hereby declared to be the duty of the clerk of the said market to take the trouble of
recovering the same.
XV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or persons shall be sued for any thing done in,
virtue of this act, the suit shall be brought within six months from the commission of the act, and
not afterwards, and the defendant or defendants in any such suit may plead the general issue, and
give this act and the special matter in evidence.
CHAP. CX.
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Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.
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An ACT to alter and change the place of holding the Election for
the first election District in Montgomery County.
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry voters
in said election district, that the present place for holding the elections is attended with many
inconveniencies for the want of better accommodations, and prays that the place for holding said
elections may be changed; the prayer of the petitioners appearing reasonable and proper, there-
fore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Richard Green, Samuel Robertson
and George Wolfe, be and are hereby appointed commissioners to ascertain what place the elections
for said district shall be held hereafter.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the above named commissioners shall meet on or before the first
day of May next, at such place as they may think proper, and make choice of some place most con-
venient fer the voters in the district, where the necessary accommodations can be bad.
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