Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1847-05-13
LA WS OF MAR AND,

Passed at December Session 1916, Of the Legislature
Maryland, relative to the Rerenue Of the State.
NO. 2ss.
A SUPPLEMENT to the act entitled, can ac
IA to regulate sales by Public Auction" passed
at December session, eighteen hundred aud twenty.
seven, chapter one hundred and eleven.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General .4ssen,bl,
Of Maryland, That all real estate and all goods,
wares, merchandise, stocks, and every other species
of personal property whatever, which shall at any
time be exposed to sale by public auction in the
city of Baltimore, with the exceptions mentioned
in the second section of this act, shall be subject
each and every time, they any of them shall be
struck off, to duties at the following rates. namely:
all real estate and vessels, all wines and ardent sp
rits foreign domestic, all goods, wares merchan
die and effects imported from any place beyond
the Cape of Good Hope, coffee, tea, sugar. and mo-
lasses, foreign or domestic; all stocks of banks or
other incorporated institutions, state or city oans
goods and effects of deceased persons or insolvent
debtors, property under order decree of any
court, at the rate of fifty cents every hun
dred dollars; ali other goods, wares, merchandise
and effects, which the production of any foreign
country, all domestic manufactures and all goods,
wares, merchandise and effects, and property of
what kind soever, not enumerated above, nor in
cluded In the exceptions IN the second SectOn OF
this act, at the rate of seventy-fve cents on every
one hundred dollars and the duties shall be calcu-
lated on the sums for which the property or goods
so exposed to sale shall be respectively struck off,
and shall be in all paid by the person making
the sale.
Sec. 2. find be it enacted, That all goods and other
belonging to this State, or the United
States or which shall be seized by any public Off
Ger for or on account Of any forfeiture or penalty,
or taken in execution and all goods distrained for
rent utensils of husbandry and all articles of the
growth and produce of this State, shall in no wise
be subject to, but hereby exempted and declared
free from the duties aforesaid and may be sold by
any person. any part of the State out of the limits
of the city of Baltimore.
Sec. 8. find be it enacted, That goods property,
Of what kind soever, sold by auction, shall in all
be struck off to the highest bidder, and when
the auctioneers or owner, or any person employed
by them or either Of them shall be such bidder, the
said goods or property shall be subject to the same
duties az if struck off to any other person. but this
section shall not be construed to render valid any
sale that would otherwise be deemed fraudulent
and void.
Sec. A. find be it enacted, That the same duties
specified in the first section of this act shall be
chargeable on all goods, wares, merchandise, or
other property sold by any auctoneer private sale
on the day of his public auction.
Sec 5. find be it enacted, That every auctioneer
duly appointed and authorized by virtue of the law
to which this is supplement, in and for the city of
Baltimore, shall hereafter, within twenty days after
the first days of January, April, July and October
of the year for which he shall have bceh appointed