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LAWS OF MARYLAND

DEC. SESS
1814.

moved from any other piece of plate, knowing such stamp,
mark or impression, to be forged, counterfeited or trans-
pose, or removed as aforesaid, or shall wilfully or know-
ingly have, or he possessed of any mark or stamp, which
hath been, or shall be forged or counterfeited in imitati-
on of, and to resemble any mark or stamp to be used as
aforesaid, every such person offending in any such or
either of the cases aforesaid, being thereof lawfully con-
victed, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dol-
lars, to be recovered by action of debt in Baltimore coun-
ty court, in the name of the mayor and city council of
Baltimore, the one half thereof to the said mayor and ci-
ty council of Baltimore for the use of the city, and the
other half thereof to the use of the informer, and shall
be committed by the court in which judgment shall be be gi-
ven thereon to the penitentiary of the state of Maryland,
there to remain and be kept at hard labor for any time not
exceeding the space of five years, nor less than one year,
and until payment be made of the said forfeiture.

Not to affect
sales in virtue
of executions.

6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing con-
tained in this act, of the act to which this is a supplement,
shall be construed to affect the sale or disposition of sil-
ver plate, or manufacture of silver, the property of any
debtor take in and by virtue of any execution or judici-
al writ, of any insolvent debtor, which sale or dispo-
sition shall be authorised and made in conformity to the
laws of this state.

Assayers shall
not be con-
cerned in ma-
nufacture.

7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be law
ful for the assayer appointed under the act to which this
is a supplement, or for any assayer who may hereafter
be appointed under said act, or concerned, or any-wise
interested, in the manufacturing or sale of silver plate,
or manufacture of silver within the city or precincts
of Baltimore, under the penalty of the forfeiture of his
office, and of the bonds which he shall have given in con-
formity to the third section of the act to which this is a
supplement.
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act and the
act to which this is a supplement be and the same is here-
by extended to the precincts of the city of Baltimore.

Passed Jan 30,
1815.
Parker Bow-
en may pro-
ceed to collect.

CHAPTER 107.
An act for the benefit of Parker Bowen and Burgess
Walett.
SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Parker Bowen, administrator of
Benjamin T. Bower, be, and he is hereby authorised and
empowered at any time previous, to the first day of Janu-
ary, in the year eighteen hundred and sixteen, to pro-
ceed and collect the county tax of said county; for the
years eighteen hundred and thirteen, and eighteen hun-
dred and fourteen, by execution if necessary in the same