T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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cle mentioned in the license, and the several sums to
be paid for licenses shall be as follows: for a license to
an as inspector of leather, one hundred and fifty dol-
lars; for a license to act as inspector of lumber, one
hundred and fifty dollars; for a license to act as gauger
of casks and inspector of liquors, one hundred and
fifty dollars; for a license to act as inspector and corder
of fire-wood, one hundred and fifty dollars; for a
license to act as inspector of lime, one hundred and
fifty dollars; for a license to act as inspector of ground
black oak bark, one hundred dollars; and for license
to act as inspector of coal, one hundred dollars; and
no license shall authorise any inspector to act as such
out of the limits of the city in which the same may have
been granted; and any person licensed to act as inspec-
tor in said city, and who shall act as such in any city
or county in which he has no license, shall subject him
to the penalties hereinafter provided for the punishment
of persons acting as inspector without license; and no
license shall continue in force for a longer period than
one year from the day of its date.

Sum to be
paid for a li-
cense.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person not
having a license to act as such inspector, who shall act
as inspector of any of the articles named in the first
section of this act, shall forfeit and pay to the sheriff of
the city, as the case may be, a sum equal to double the
price of the license to act as inspector of the said article
as prescribed in the first section of this act; said penalty
to be imposed as a fine by the court having criminal
jurisdiction in the city on presentment or indictment by
the grand jury and conviction in due course of law,
and one third of the penalty shall be paid by the sheriff
to the informer, who is hereby declared competent as
witness, and the residue shall be accounted for by the
sheriff to the treasury of the State, as other fines and

Forfeiture for
acting with-
out license.

forfeitures are required to be accounted for; Provided,
however, that nothing in this act shall be construed to
forbid the manufacturer or the actual and bona fide
owner of any article of merchandise from marking or
stamping thereon, or on the package containing the
same, the quantity or quality of the same.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any person or per-
sons may buy or sell, export, or otherwise dispose of
any of the articles mentioned in the first section of this
act, without having the same inspected, measured or
guaged by any inspector, but in all cases of difference
between the buyer and seller, as to the quantity, quali-
ty or measurement of any of the said articles, either

Persons may
buy or sell
without arti-
cles being in-
spected.