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full power and authority to make such by laws, for the regula-
tion and good government of the said town, and the inhabitants
thereof, and to restrain all disorders and disturbances, and to
prevent and remove all nuisances, inconveniences and annoy-
ances, within the said town, and to do, order and control such
other things within the said town as to them, or a majority of
them shall seem fit and proper to be done, and not contrary to
the constitution and laws of the state; and the said by-laws
shall be observed, kept and performed, by all the inhabitants of
the said town, and by all persons travelling therein, under such
reasonable penalties, fines and forfeitures, as shall be imposed
by the said laws, not exceeding eight dollars lawful money for
any one offence; the said penalties, fines and forfeitures to be
levied and recovered as directed for the recovery of penalties
and forfeitures by the twenty third section of the law to which
this is a supplement.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners are
hereby authorised and empowered to assess and levy a tax not
exceeding two dollars each, for every dog belonging to or kept
by any of the inhabitants of the town, to be recovered and
collected as other taxes under the original law to which this is a
supplement; and the commissioners may authorise and compel
the bailiff to kill any dog within the town whose owner cannot
be ascertained, or whose ostensible owner or keeper shall by
any mode or artifice evade the payment of the tax.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the twenty first sec-
tion of the original law to which this is a supplement, respecting
geese and swine in the town of Cambridge, which section has
been partially repealed, be and is hereby revived and in full
force, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any justice of the
peace for the county aforesaid shall be authorised to hold an
election on the third Monday in February next, for five com-
missioners, qualified as directed by the original act to which
this is an additional supplement, in the same manner as is di-
rected by the said original act.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
so chosen shall assemble on the first Monday in March next
ensuing their election, instead of the first Monday in April, as
directed by the original act.
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all subsequent elections
for commissioners shall be held at the same time, and in the
same manner as directed by the original act.
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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Dog tax.
21st section
revived.
Commission-
ers.
Annual
meeting.
Elections.
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CHAPTER 71.
A further supplement to the act entitled, an act for quieting
possessions, and securing and confirming the estates of pur-
chasers.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That all deeds heretofore made for conveying or
passing any estate of inheritance or freehold, or declaring or
limiting any use or uses, trust or trusts, or for conveying any
estate or estates for above seven years, which have been ack-
nowledged by femes covert, and wherein it appears by the cer-
tificate of the person or persons lawfully authorised to take
such as acknowledgments that the same were made agreeably to
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Passed Jan.
10, 1816.
Acknow-
ledgment of
deeds &c.
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