1860,

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 248.

nearest warehouse to the place where the said vessel
shall ride, and the lessee of such warehouse shall
receive from the person relanding the same, the
sum of forty cents for every hogshead so landed,
and shall give a receipt for the same, and shall
cause the said tobacco to be safely lodged and de-
livered to the owner or his order when required,
without any other fee or reward.

Notes, &c.

SEC. 29. If any note of any lessee be lost, mis-
laid or destroyed, the person entitled to receive the
tobacco, by virtue of such note, may make oath
before a justice of the peace of the county wherein
he resides, or if he resides in the city of Baltimore,
before a justice of the peace for said city, to the
mark, number and date of such note, to whom and
when payable, and for what quantity of tobacco
the same was given, that such is lost, mislaid, or
destroyed, and that such person at the time such
note was lost, mislaid or destroyed, was lawfully
and justly entitled to receive the tobacco therein
mentioned, and shall take a certificate thereof from
such justice to the lessee who signed the note, and
lodge the same with him, and the said lessee shall
deliver to the said person a new note, with marks,
numbers, weights and dates corresponding with
the former note, and shall thereby be discharged
from all actions and demands on account of such
former note.

Perjury, for-
gery, and pen-
alty.

SEC. 30. If any person shall be convicted of tak-
ing a false oath, as to any of the matters mentioned
in the preceding section, he shall suffer as in cases
of wilful and corrupt perjury, and shall forfeit and
pay to the party injured, fifty dollars for every hun-
dred pounds of tobacco specified in such certificates,
and so in proportion for a less quantity, and any
person selling or producing a forged certificate of
the oath mentioned in the preceding section, know-
ing the same to be forged, shall, upon conviction,
be fined a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty
dollars, and shall pay to the party injured fifty
dollars for every hundred pounds of tobacco speci-
fied in such certificate.

New notes
only to be is
sued after lost
ones are ad-
vertised.

SEC. 31. No person shall be entitled, to receive a
new note in lieu of any note lost, destroyed, or
mislaid, unless he shall advertise the same within
twenty days after such note is first discovered to be
lost, mislaid, or destroyed, at the warehouse at
which such tobacco was inspected.