JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1832.

CHAPTER 102.

CHAP. 103.

A further supplement to an act to enlarge the, bounds of Gen-
treville, and for other purposes.

Passed Mar., 1833

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall be legal for the Commissioners of
the Town of Centreville, in Queen Anne's county, to recover
from any owner of a dog or bitch in said Town, the sum
which such owner should pay, by existing laws, for said dog
or bitch, in the manner prescribed by the eighth section of
an act passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
twenty-three, chapter one hundred and eighty-two, to be
applied as in said law specified.

Tax on dogs, &c.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That in all cases in which
judgment shall be rendered against any resident of said
Town in virtue of the first section of this act, and the bai-
liff shall not be able to collect the amount of the judgment
and costs, he shall certify the same to the Commissioners,
who shall direct the bailiff to shoot or otherwise destroy
said dog or bitch.

Commissioners

may order the dog

to be destroyed

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the seventh section of
the act of December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-
three, above referred to, which relates to poultry, be and
the same is hereby repealed.

Repeal.

CHAPTER 103.

A supplement to an act, entitled, an act to Incorporate the
Liberty-Town Savings Institution.

Passed Mar.2, 1833

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That all discounts heretofore made by the Li-
berty-Town Savings Institution, wherein the rate of inter-
est has been calculated according to the standard laid down
in Rowlitt's Tables, be and they are hereby declared to be
valid, to all intents and purposes, any law of this State to
the contrary notwithstanding.

Interest by Row-

lett's tables sanc-

tioned.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That no court of law of this
State shall entertain or admit the plea of usury, to bar any
claim due to the said Institution, where the rate of inter-
est has been calculated according to the interest tables of
Rowlitt.

Plea of usury no

bar