FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841..

Pinkney, Administrator of Ramsay Waters, to place all fees i
now due. to Ramsay Waters, late register of the chancery
court, by any citizen of the State or incorporated institution
in the hands of the sheriffs of the several counties for col-
lection, at any time prior to the fifteenth day of April next,
and that the said sheriffs shall be bound to receive the same
for collection, and to account with and pay to the said Som-
erville Pinkney, administrator as aforesaid, all sums of mo-
ney to be received by them thereon, in the same manner and
at the same time as they are now required by law to pay
other officers fees by the existing laws, any law or usage to
the contrary notwithstanding; provided, that the said admin-
istrator shall make affidavit on the list of fees sent to the
sheriff of each county, that it does not appear by the books
or papers of his intestate that any of the items in the said

CHAP. 311.
Proviso

list have been paid.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the sureties of the said
sheriffs shall be responsible for the performances of the
duty of their principals in this respect, to the same extent
as they are responsible for them in relation to the fees of
other officers.

Sureties of
Sheriffs res-
ponsible.

CHAPTER 311.

An act to prevent the collection of Excessive Wharfage in
the City of Baltimore.

Parsed March
9, 1842.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, no further or greater
sum for wharfage, or sums of money under any pretext of
charging wharfage, shall be charged on any goods, wares
or merchandize which may be landed at or shipped from
any of the public wharves in the city of Baltimore, or ship-
ped from one vessel to another, than may be properly
chargeable by and under the provisions of the laws and or-
dinances existing before the passage of the ordinances by
the mayor and city council of Baltimore, approved the
eleventh day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and
thirty-nine, and entitled, a supplement to an ordinance enti-
tled, an ordinance to preserve the navigation of the harbor
of Baltimore, appoint port wardens and harbor masters
and prescribe their duties; and that the last mentioned ordi-
nance, and also an ordinance passed by the mayor and city
council of Baltimore, and approved the twelfth day of
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Regulated by
ordinances
previous to
1839.