1817.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 317.

bushel for every bushel he shall measure, exclusive of

all necessary expense for labour, and the procurement
of scales and measures, to be paid in disputed cases by
the party in error, and in other cases by the employer.

Selling without
Scales prohib-
ited.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That hereafter no per-
son or persons shall retail coal in the city of Baltimore
without a suitable scale, approved of by the inspector
of weights for said city, and no person or persons
shall sell anthracite or hard coal from a vessel, with-
out using a suitable scale, approved as aforesaid.

Penalty for vio-
lating.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said inspector
and measurers shall be entitled to receive, demand and
recover by action at law, in the name of the State for
their use, before any single justice of the peace, the
aforementioned fees and expenses for all weighing and
measuring done by them, and if any person shall vio-
late the provisions of this act, he, or they, so offending
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of ten dollars for each
and every offence, the sum to be recovered before any
justice of the peace, one half thereof to the use of the
informer and the remainder to the State.

Act of 1836 ch.
265, repealed.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the art to provide
for the inspection and weight of anthracite or hard
coal, and for the measuring of bituminous coal, passed
at the December session eighteen hundred and thirty-
six, chapter two hundred and sixty-five, be, and the
same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 317.

Passed Mar. 89,
1838.

An act to authorise and require the Commissioners of
the Tax of Carroll county, to Fence in a Garden at
the Jail of said county.

Direction given.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Commissioners of the Tax of Carroll county
be, and they are hereby authorised and required to
fence in a sufficient quantity of the lot attached to the
jail of said county, to serve for a garden for the sheriff
or jailer of said county, and that they be required to
have the said garden enclosed by a good fence, of such
materials as may be proper for the purpose, on or be-