PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

CHAPTER 93.

CHAP. 94.

An additional supplement to an act entitled, tin act to
incorporate the Pike Creek Benevolent Society, pas-

sed at December Session, eighteen hundred and forty-
three, chapter one hundred and ninety -two.

Passed Jan, 25,
1850.

WHEREAS, It has been represented to this General

Assembly, that the maximum amount of property
which the Pipe Creek Benevolent Society is autho-
rised to hold and possesses insufficient to accomplish
the object for which said society was incorporated —
Therefore,

Preamble.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the amount of property, real, personal and mixed,

which the said society is authorised by the act to
which this is an additional supplement, to hold and
possess, be and the same is hereby increased to the
sum of fifty thousand dollars.

CHAPTER 94.

May increase
property.

An act to prevent the selling of Dry Goods put up with
short measure.

Passed Feb. 2,
1850.

WHEREAS, It has become a common practice for the
manufacturers, auctioneers, commission merchants,
and other dealers of cotton and woollen, and other
dry goods, to vend and make packages or parcels of
the same, as containing a stated number of yards,
when in fact such packages or parcels do not contain
a quantity as large as stated in and by said marks,
whereby dealers and others buying by and relying on
such marks, are deceived and imposed on — There-
fore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That hereafter it shall not be lawful to sell
any package or parcel, or packages or parcels of cotton,
woollen or other dry goods, having any mark thereon,or
attached thereto, indicating or stating a greater num-
ber of yards or larger quantity than is actually con-
tained in such package or parcel, respectively, and that
any auctioneer, commission merchant, or other dealers

Actual con-
tents to be mar-
ked on package.