The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-06-12
Extracts of Some New Laws.-Below we

Extracts of Some New Laws.-Below we
publish extracts of some of the general laws pass
ed at the late session of the Legislature, which
will be found of general interest:
Chapter 455 is intended to protect dairymen
and should effectually prevent deception in the
sale of butter and cheese. 1t provides that no
bogus or imitation butter or cheese shall be sold,
or offered for sale, for the pure article, under the
penalty of not less than 10 nor more than go days
Imprisonment and also q fine of 500 for the first
offence, and not less than 80 days imprisonment
and $3.50 for second offence. One half the fine to
60 in every case to the informer. Oleomargarine
can be manufactured and sold, but shall be brand
ed, so that no one can be deceived by it, and sold
from place especially devoted to sale of oleomar-
garine. The restrictions upon the sale are such
that no trick or device will allow oleomargarine
to be sold except to persons knowingly buying it
as SUCH
Chap. 294 is intended to protect the lives of
persons and property at railroad crossings, over
public highways, and makes 1t The duty of County
Commissioners, where the passage of locomotives
and trains thereon is believed to be dangerous to
life and property, to notify the railroad companies,
which shall, within sixty days thereafter, either
place iagman at such crossing or by system
of electric alarm bells give notice of the passage
of trans shall erect safety gates at said cross
ing, which shall be closed at least one half minute
before and during the passage of every locomo-
tive or train. For neglect or refusal to comply
with these requirements the railroad company will
be liable to fine of $25 for each and every day it
shall so neglect or refuse.
Chap. AT provides that no manufacturer i'm
porter or dealer in commercial fertilizers shall sell
or offer to sell the same without taking out a Ii
cense therefore, but no license shall be charged
upon lots ordered by farmers for their own use
and after their own formula, nor where the man
ufacturer has taken out license in the State shall
it be necessary for the seller to do So A fine of
not more than 5000 shall be imposed upon any
selling without license under this Act, with
out the label required showing the true analysis
of the fertilizer.
The new marriage license law requires license
to be procured in all cases, except in of Quakers
who may marry according to the custom of their
Creed in presence of twelve witnesses, &C., and
before the Clerk issues such license, an affidavit
by of the parties, some one in their behalf
shall be made and certificate signed as to the
ages of the parties their places of residence, their
color, and their relationship. If in the course of
the examination the Clerk finds the parties dis
quail fed from any cause he shall refuse to issue
the license unless required to do so by the Judge
of the Court to whom the parties apply by petit
ton. The license when issued, is conclusive to
the minister and he is relieved from any penalties
for marrying persons, who are ineligible, but it is
subject to heavy penalty for marrying persons
without license.
Two certificates are appended to the marriage
license to be signed by the minister performing
the ceremony, one of which is to be delivered to
the contracting parties and the other to the Clerk
of the Court within thirty days.
The Clerk is also required to keep a marriage
license book which shall be a complete record of
all the items testified to for the procurement of the
license and of the fact of the marriage. The names
of the parties are to be carefully ndexed so that
ready reference can be had as to the facts con-
nected with the marriage which record shall also
be evidence of the merriage in the Courts of the
State. Males may marry when above 81 years Of
| age, and females, when above 16 years. Under
these ages nsent in writing must be had from
parent or guardian, and such assent is made part
| of the marriage record.