1852.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 153.
In force.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted That this act shall go into
effect from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 152.

Passed April
28, 1852.

AN ACT to regulate the Inspecting of Domestic
Distilled Liquors in this State.

Inspector to
mark, "guag-
ed and inspec-
ted," instead

of number of
"proofs,"

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the guagers and inspectors of do-

mestic distilled liquors, shall mark on each cask, guaged
and inspected, instead of the number of proofs, as pre-
scribed by the act of eighteen hundred and txventy-
eight, chapter one hundred and sixty-eight, the degrees
above or below the standard of eighty-five degrees of
dycus hydrometer, as fixed by the fourth section of the
act, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
twenty-seven, chapter one hundred and eighty-one.

In force.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall go
into effect from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 153.

Passed April
24, 1852.

AN ACT to Incorporate the Merchants and Miners'
Transportation Company.

Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That W. S. Woodside, Hugh Jenkins,
Benjamin Deford, John H. Ehlen, and Edward Wil-
liams, their associates, successors, and assigns, be, and
they are hereby created and made a body corporate,
by the name and style of the Merchants and Miners'
Transportation Company, and by that name shall have
perpetual succession, and shall be capable in law to
hold and dispose of property, to sue and be sued, to
plead and be impleaded, answer and defend, and to be
answered and defended in any courts of law or equity,
and in any other place whatsoever, to receive and make
deeds and contracts, to make, have and use a common
seal, and the same to change, alter or renew at pleasure;
to ordain and establish such by-laws, ordinances and
regulations, as may appear necessary for regulating the