T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 343.

AN ACT to regulate the inspection of lumber in
Baltimore city.

Passed Much
10, 1856.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That from and after the passage of

this act all lumber corning to the city of Baltimore
shall be inspected by the licensed inspector of said
city; Provided, the same has not already been inspect-
ed by a regularly appointed inspector for Port Depos-
it, Havre de Grace, Perryville, or its vicinity.

To be inspec-

ted.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person or per-
sons refusing to comply with the first section of this act

shall forfeit and pay a fine of five dollars per thou-
sand feet, board measure, one-half to the informer, the
other to the use of the State, to be recovered as other
fines and forfeitures are, the informer, in all cases, to
be a competent witness.

Penalty for re-

fusing to com-
ply with act.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts, or parts
of acts inconsistent with this act, be and the same
are hereby repealed.

Repealed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That whenever the
buyer or seller of any lumber or timber shall feel
himself aggrieved by any inspector not having done
him justice according to the provisions in this act,
either in quantity, the buyer shall appoint one of the
licensed inspectors, and the seller another, and they
two shall select a third person to act as umpire, who
shall be a person well acquainted with the kind of
lumber or timber to be resurveyed, and not a licensed,
inspector, and the three persons so appointed
shall re-measure and mark said lumber or timber,
and their decision shall be final; the compensation of
said arbitrators shall not exceed fifty cents per thou-
sand feet, to be paid by the person found by them to
to be in default.

Arbitration.