Year: 1878

pay to the party holding the same the sum
of thirty cents for every hawk or owl, and
the sum of twenty-five cents for every
weasel specified therein as having been
produced before said Magistrate and sworn
to have been bona fde killed or destroyed
in said county as aforesaid.


1890. The Commissioners of said county
shall, in making their annual levy in each
year, levy in the hands of the said Treasur-
er contingent fund to meet the payments
required to be made by him under the last
preceding section, and if, at the end of
the year, such sum shall prove to have
been insufficient they shall levy such ad
ditional sum therefor as may be necessary.
199d. If the Treasurer shall, for any
reason, refuse to pay the sums provided to
be paid by this Act upon presentation of
the certificate of said justices herein speci
fed, then an action shall be against the
Commissioners of said county to recover
the sums herein designated to be paid for
the killing or destroying of any such owl,
hawk or weasel aforesaid.


Sec. g And be it enacted, That this
A ct shall take effect from the date of its
passage.


FETTER S. HOBLITZELL,


Speaker of the House of Delegates.


EDWARD LLOYD,


President of the Senate.


Approved this 9Th day of April 1878.


JOHN LEE CARROLL,
The Great Seal. Governor.
MARYLAND set:


l, James S. Franklin, clerk of the Court
of Appeals of Maryland, de hereby certify
that the aforegoing is full and true copy
of the Act of the General Assembly Of
Maryland of which it purports to be
copy as taken from the original Law be-
longing to and deposited in the Office of
the clerk ofthe Court Of Appeals of Mary
land.


In testimony whereof hereunto set my
hand as clerk and affiX the seal xxxxxxs
of the ! said Court toof Of Appeals this .sE.Ah


JAMES S. FRANKLIN,
Clerk ofthe Court of Appeals of Maryland.
May leS5t


CHAPTER 398.


AN ACT to add certain new sections to
the Code of Public Local Laws, article
one, entitled, "Allegany County," sub
title Flour" to come after section sev-
enty-one.


SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the following
new sections be and are hereby added to
the Code of Public Local Laws, article one,
entitled "Allegany County, subtitle
Flour" to come after section seyenty-one,
and to read as follows:


71a. The County Commissioners Of Allie
gany county shall, on or before the sec
ond Monday Of May next, and in every
year thereafter appoint an inspector of
flour for said county, who shall live in the
,;t 80 ol,.
flour which he may be called upon to in
spect by any manufacturer or dealer there
in, or by any purchaser thereof, but such
inspection shall not be compulsory unless
required by either the vendor or purchas-
er of such flour, nor shall such inspector
be obliged, except at his option, to go be-
yond the limits of the city of Cumberland
to make such inspections, and said inspcc-
tor shall, before he enters upen the dis
charge of his duties, make oath before the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany
county, that he will perform the duties of
said office fairly and impartially, and shall
file bond with said clerk to the State of
Maryland, with surety and securities to be
approved by said clerk, conditioned to per-
form such duties properly, fairly and I'M
Partially in the penalty of five hundred
dollars


lib. Whenever said inspector shall in
spect any flour he shall brand or mark ON
the barrel the quantity OF grade thereof,
and if the same is of inferior grade to that
which it purports TO be- then he shall SO
mark thereon.


Tic. If desired by either the vendor or
purchaser ofsaid flour, said inspector shall
weigh the same and mark thereon the true
weight thereof, and if he shall find that
tl,n ,f 1o,l tlo,,
red and ninety-siX pounds, then said bar
rel Of flour shall be forfeited and sold By
the inspector and the proceeds thereof
shall go to the school fund of said county.
lid. Said inspector shall not purchase
directly or indirectly, or be interested in
the purchase or sale Of any flour whatso-
ever other than for his own family use,
under the penalty of five dollars for every
barrel SO purchased by him.


lie. The general inspector of flour in
the city of Baltimore, within ten days af-
ter the standard Of flour is fixed for said
city, shall send to the inspector herein
named fair specimen of the standard and
samples of flour there established and col
lected, to be kept and observed as stand
ards by said inspector herein named


If. In all cases where such inspector
may pronounce flour barrel insufficient,
the owner of such barrel, or his agent, may
either cause the same to be repaired or
substitute new one, as the case may re-
quire, OF he may make such deduction
from the price of the flour as may be mu-
tually agreed upon between himself and
the purchaser thereof.


Zig. Said inspector shall be entitled to
charge and receive for inspecting, weighing
and marking each barrel of flour inspect
ed, marked and weighed by him, the sum
Of one and one-half cents for inspecting
and one cent for weighing each barrel


71h. If said inspector shall willtully,
knowingly and falsely mark the quality or
weight of any barrel of flour he shall for
felt and pay the sum of fifty dollars for
every barrel so falsely marked, to be re-
covered by indictment in the Circuit Court
for Allcgany county, and his bond may be
put into suit by any person or persons in
jured by any breach of duty committed by
him, and such damages, not exceeding the
penalty thereof, recovered thereon, as the
plaintiff in such suits may have sustained
by his improper acts.


SEC.2 And be it enacted, That this act
shall take effect from the date Of its pas
sage.


FETTER S. HOBLITZELL,


Speaker of the House of Delegates.


EDWARD LLOYD,


President Of the Senate.


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