CHARLES GOLBSBOROUGH, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1818.

Coopers employed about the coopering of any barrels, half barrels
or tierces of fish, that he may have, to inspect, if in his judgment
the cooper or coopers so employed shall neglect or refuse to com-
ply with his directions in relation thereto; and any cooper or coop-
ers who shall refuse to leave the, said barrels, half barrels or
tierces, as aforesaid, and shall persist in working thereupon, after
having received his or their discharge from the said inspector, or
his deputy, as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty
dollars for each ami every such wrongful act, to be recovered and
appropriated in the same manner as all other fines are recovered
and appropriated in the said original act.
4. And be it enacted, That the master or owner of any vessel
shall hereafter pay to the inspector, or his deputy, one cent and
one half cent, for every barrel, half barrel, or tierce of fish, men-
tioned in the certificates required to be by them given, in lieu of
the sum heretofore allowed.
5. And whereas, great abuses have hitherto proceeded from
branding barrels and other casks containing mackerel No. 2, when
according to their quality they ought to have, been branded No. 3,
lie it enacted, in remedy thereof, that the inspector, or his deputy,
fur the city of Baltimore, shall be allowed and authorised, and he
is hereby allowed and authorised, to brand any barrels, or other
casks, containing mackerel, No. 3, provided that in his judgment
said mackerel be of a very poor and inferior quality, and the said
No. 3 be a due and fair estimate thereof.

CHAP. 99.

Masters of vessels
to pay one cent
and a half for eve-
barrel, &c, men-
tioned in certifi-
cates required to
be given.

Inspector autho-
rised to brand bar-
rels containing
mackerel No. 3.

CHAPTER 100.

An act relating to the copies of certain papers from the Land
Office.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
a copy of any original certificate in the land office, together with
the notes or illustrations annexed thereto at the time the same was
returned into the land office, referring to the lines of other tracts
of land, certified by the register under his hand and the seal of his
office, shall be evidence in any court of law or equity in this state,.
in the same manner, and have the same effect, as if it were the ori-
ginal papers, and proved to be in the hand writing of the surveyor
by whom the original survey was made, and that the said surveyor.
Was dead.

Passed Feb. 2 1819

Original certifi-
cate, referring to
lines of other
tracts, certified by
register, to be evi-
dence in any
court.

CHAPTER 101.

An act for the relief of the Infant Children of Joseph Stew-
art, late of Anne-Arundel county, deceased.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court of Anne-Arundel county, be and they
are hereby directed, at their next levy court, and so long after
as they shall see fit, to levy and assess annually, on the assessable
property of said county, a sum of money not exceeding thirty
dollars, for the support and maintenance of the infant children of
the said Joseph Stewart, deceased, and that the same be collected
annually by the collector of Anne-Arundel county, and paid to Lar-
kin Hammond, or to his order, so long as the children of the said
Joseph Stewart may remain with, and be supported by, the said
Larkin Hammond.

Passed Feb 3 1819

Levy authorised
for their support.