The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
Public General L02US.
lCHAPTER 446. |
IAPTER 446.
LIVE STOC OK.
AN ACT


timore," subtitle olive Stock ;" by adding
an additional section to said subtitle reat
ing to the leasing of the State Cattle Yard
and Scales, and by repeating and re-enact
ing as amended, sections four hundred ant
sixty, four hundred and sixty-one, four hun.
dred and sixty-two, four hundred and
sixty-three and section four hundred and
sixty-nine, as the same was amended by the
act ofeighteen hundred and seventy-four
chapter three hundred and twenty-eight
and section four hundred and seventy o
said article four, and said subtitle "Livt
Stock" as the same was amended by the ACT
ofeighteen hundred and sixty-four, chapter
three hundred and twenty-eight and to re.
peal sections four hundred and sixty-four
and four hundred and seventy-fve of said
subtitle, az amended by the act of eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, chapter three hun.
bred and twenty-eight, and also 70 repeal
sections four hundred and seventy-two and
four hundred and seventy-three, of said ar
ticle four and subtitle "Liye Stock"
Section l. Be it enacted by the General As
sembly of Maryland, That article four of the
Code of Public Local Laws of this State, title
"City of Baltimore" subtitle olive Stock
be, and the same is hereby, amended by add
ing the following additional sections thereto.
Sec. -. The Board of Public works in this
State Is authorized and directed to lease the
State Cattle Yards and Scales upon such terms
as shall be satisfactory to the said Beard for
the period of four years; said rental to be paid
quarterly, and said lease to be made upon such
conditions as to keeping the said property in
good condition and repair, as the said Board
of Public Works shall deem necessary.
Sec. 2 And be it enacted, That said article
four, of said Public Local Laws, title "Clty of
Baltimore" subtitle Live Sock" be further
amended by repeating and re-enacting, a.
amended, sections four hundred and sixty,
four hundred and sixty-one, four hundred and
sixty-two, four hundred and sixty-thIee and
four hundred and sixty-nine, as the said last
mentioned section was amended by the act Of
eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter
three hundred and twenty-eight, and by re-
pealing and re-enacting, az amended section
four hundred and seventy, as amended, by the
act of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, chap
ter three hundred and twenty-eight, 30 that
said section shall read as follows:
Sec. 400. All beef, cattle and hogs and
other live stock, brought for sale or slaughter
within the corporate limits of the City OF Bal
timore, or within five miles of said limits, at
the option of she owner thereof, or his agent,
may be weighed by said weighmaster.
Sec. 461. The said weighmaster shall, upon
any day in the week, except Sunday, weigh
all live stock that may be offered for weighing
at the live stock scales for that purpose and
shall give a certificate, under his hand, setting
forth the autual gross weight of any number of
cattle or hogs, or any other live stock 30
weighed by him, to their owner or his agent,
making such allowances in the nature and tare
on account of any dirt, mud, filth or any other
matter adhering to the same, as he may think
just and proper.
Sec. 462. He shall charge and collect for the
use of the State, or after the lease OF the Cattle
Scales, for the use of the lesses of the State
Cattle Yards and Scales, for weighing any
live stock, except sheep, two cents for every
hundred weight and one cent per head for
every sheep; and for every second and subse-
quent weighing of cattle and hogs two cents
for every thousand weight; and for every
second weighing of sheep one cent for every
thousand weight, and for all other live stock
| the sum of six cents for every thousand
weight, provided, however, that the same
weighmaster shall neither charge nor collect
anything for any live stock whether beef,
cattle, hogs and sheep not weighed at said
Cattle Yards; and provided further, that the
owner or his agent, of such cattle, hogs or
sheep or other live stock may at their option
weigh the same by any other person than such
weighmaster or the lessees of such Cattle
| Yards and Scales.
Sec. 1853. He shall keep full record of all
weights OF live stock as ascertained and deter
mine by him and of the persons or corpora
tions for whom the same was ascertained and
determined, and for all moneys by him re-
ceved as weighmaster, which said moneys
shall be accounted for and paid over by him
as received from day 10 day to the lessee or
lessees of the State Cattle Yards and Scales
after the lease thereof as herein provided, and
before such lease to the State Comptroller.
Sec. 469 The lessee or lessees of the State
Cattle Yards shall employ and pay all clerk,
or assistants or labor, permanently or tenn.
porarily necessary for the weighing of live
stock at the State Cattle Yards and Scales.
Sec 40 The weghmaster shall receive an
annual compensation of fifteen hundred dollars
which shall be paid quarterly in equal sum,
by the lessee or lesses of the State Cattle Yard
and Scales.
Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That section foul
hundred and sixty four and four hundred ant
seventy-ive, of said article four of the Code o
Public Local Laws, subtitle Olive Stock" a
the same was amended by the act of eighteen
hundred and sixty-four. chapter three hundred
and twenty eight, and sections four hundred
and seventy-two and four hundred and seventy
three, of said article four of, the Code Publ,
Local Laws, subtitle olive Stock" be, an,
the same are hereby, repealed.
Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That this ac
shall take effect from and a fer the date of it
passage, and all acts or parts of acts, whethe
public, general or local, Inconsistent with thi
act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
HERMAN STUMP, JR.,
President of the Senate
HIRAM MCCULLOUGH,
Speaker of the House of Delegate.
Approved April 10, 1880.
WIN. 7. HAMILTON,
Governor of Maryland.
: We hereby certify that the aforegoing is
correct copy of an act of the General A,
sembly of Maryland, passed at the Januar
session, 1880.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegate
EUGENE HIGGINS,
Secretary of the Senat