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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1811.

Inspectors'
compensation.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said inspec-
tors shall be entitled to receive as a compensation for
inspecting ail boards, plank and scantling, at the rate,
of forty cents for every thousand feet board measure,
except in the city of Baltimore they shall be entitled
to receive only thirty cents for every thousand feet
board measure; and for inspecting ail shingles, they
shall be entitled to receive twenty cents for each and
every thousand; and for all laths ten cents for each
and every thousand, so in proportion for a greater or
less quantity, the one half to be paid by the buyer, and
the other half by the seller.

No body corpo-
rate shall ap-
point Inspec
tors. Those now
appointed shall
cease to act on
the 1st of
March next.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That no body corpo-
rate shall have the power to appoint an inspector of
lumber; and all persons acting under any authority
given them by any body corporate, shall cease to act
from and after the first day of March next, every per-
son so offending shall forfeit and pay a sum of money
not exceeding five hundred dollars, one half to be paid
to the informer, the other half to the state o

CHAPTER 71.

Passed Dec. 27,
1811.

An act for the benefit of John Reardon, of Har-
ford county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, John Reardon, by his petition to this
General Assembly hath set forth, that on the twenty-
fourth day of August, in the year seventeen hundred
and ninety-one, he purchased of a certain Samuel
Durham, part of a lot of ground, situate in the town
of Belle-Air, in the county aforesaid, and distin-
guished on the plot of said town by lot No. 8, that the
whole of the purchase money for the said lot hath
been paid by the said John Reardon, and a deed duly
executed by the said Durham to the said Reardon;
but that the said deed was never acknowledged by
the said Durham, who is since dead; and the said
John Reardon hath prayed that a law may pass au-
thorising and directing the clerk of Harford county
to record the same, and to give validity and operation
to the said deed, in the same manner as if the same
had been duly acknowledged; and the prayer of the
petitioner appearing reasonable: — Therefore,

Clerk of county
court requited
to record a cer-
tain deed.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the clerk of Harford county court be,
and he is hereby directed and required to record the
deed from Samuel Durham to John Reardon, bearing
date on the twenty-fourth day of August, in the year