1841.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 192.

absence receive no compensation, or if the chief inspector,
as aforesaid, shall upon a careful and impartial examination
of the whole subject, be satisfied that either of the sub-in-
spectors have either wilfully or through ignorance put upon
any barrel or cask of salted fish any mark other than its
condition and quality requires, the said chief inspector is
authorised and required to suspend such sub-inspector, and
transmit a statement in writing of the grounds of such sus-
pension under oath to the governor, and the governor is
hereby empowered to continue such suspension or reinstate
the said sub-inspector as the circumstances of the case may
require.

Coopers to be
under control
of chief in-
spector.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That all coepers who may
be engaged in the recooperage of fish during the time the
said fish are undergoing inspection, shall be under the con-
troul of the chief inspector, and the said chief inspector is
hereby authorised, required and directed, to discharge such
cooper who shall refuse, fail or neglect to perform his du-
ties in a workmanlike or satisfactory manner.

Fines—how
recoverable.

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That all lines and forfeitures
incurred under this act, if over a hundred dollars, shall be
recoverable in the name of. the state, in the same way that
debts over one hundred dollars are now recoverable by law
in the city court of Baltimore, and if under one hundred
dollars before a Justice of the peace in the same way as
debts are now recoverable by law, and shall be appropri-
ated, one half to the use of the informer, the other half to
the use of the state.

CHAPTER 192.

Passed March
8. 1842.

An act for the incorporation of Gratitude Lodge, number
five, of the Order of Independent Odd Fellows, of Ma-
ryland.

Individuals
incorporated.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That George Peter, Junior, Samuel C. Rida-
nay, Christopher Herguesheimer, Jacob Ball, Francis A.
Miller, Arthur Lewis, Samuel Robinson, George H. Hall,
John H. T. Jerome, R. C. Shanks, Abraham Blackcasm,
T. Spencer, John H. Cobbs, Jacob Stahl, Junior, Nehe-
miah Crockett, T. J. Scrivener, George Elliott, J. W.
Norriss, Richard Fonder, William G. Gorsuch, A. McBride,
John Goonealis, R. Ashesap, F. Bangs, Thomas J. Mat-
thews, N. G. James, N. S. T. Wright, V. G. Thomas, G.