1818.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 125.

Penalty for giving
below the market
price for hay, &c.

If corporation
neglects to provide
scales, any person
may erect them.

carts in the streets so as to interrupt the free intercourse through
the same, or to drive a wagon or cart on Sunday in said city.
4. Awl be it enacted. That from and after the first day of May
next, if any person in the city of Baltimore shall give, or promise
to give, to any driver or person having charge of any wagon or
other carnage, any sum or sums of money, or goods of any des-
cription, for the purpose of obtaining hay or straw intrusted to the
care of such driver or person having the charge, or care thereof, at
any price below the market price of the day, or shall wilfully make
out any bill or bills for the same, without stating the full amount
paid, or promised to be paid to such wagoner or person having care
thereof, shall forfeit and pay a sum of money not exceeding fifty
nor less than twenty dollars, one half to the use of the informer,
and the other half to the use of the person injured, to be recovered
before a justice of the peace as herein provided, in the same
manner as small debts are recovered out of court.
, 5. And be it enacted, That if the said mayor and city council shall
omit to provide the scales in the manner herein before provided,
that then and in that case it shall and may be lawful for any person
to erect such scales, and take and receive, for the weighing thereof,
the like sum as is provided by this law, subject to the like penal-
ties and duties as are contained herein.

Passed Feb.5, 1819

Authorised to col-
lect until 1st Jan.
1820.

Before he pro-
ceeds to execute
property to deliv-
er an account, &c

Books to be lodged
in clerk's office.

chapter 126.
An act authorising Marsham Parker, former Sheriff of
Calvert county, to complete his collection.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the said Marsham Parker be, and he is hereby authorised, to col-
lect, until the first day of January eighteen hundred and twenty,
all balances due him as sheriff of Calvert county, in the same man-
ner as he could or might have done within the time limited by law,
any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said Mar-
sham Parker, before he proceeds to execute or distrain the proper-
ty of any person or persons for officers fees, in virtue of this act,
to deliver to such person or persons chargeable with the same, at
least thirty days previous to levying such execution or distress, an
account, written in words at full length, of the officers fees or pub-
lic dues demanded of him, her or them, with an affidavit annexed,
if required, that he hath not. received any part thereof, nor any
thing as security or satisfaction for the same, more than credits
given, to the best of his knowledge.
3. And be it enacted, That the said Marsham Parker, before he
derives any benefit from or under this act, shall lodge his collection
books in the clerk's office of Calvert comity, to be opened for the
inspection of all persons interested in the same.

Passed Feb 5, 1819

Constables direct-
ed to seize and
impound swine
going at large in

town.

CHAPTER 127.

An act to prevent Swine from going at large in the Town
of Salisbury.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the constables of Salisbury and Wi-
comico hundreds, in Somerset and Worcester counties, and they
are hereby directed, to seize and impound, all swine which may be