Charles goldsborough, esq. governor.

1818.

liamsport, who does not own a lot or lots in said town, on the day
that the books are first opened.
15. And be it enacted, That any individual through whose land
water is intended to be brought for the purposes aforesaid, may on
the first day that the. books aforesaid are opened, have the right of
subscribing for stock to the amount of fifty shares, or to the whole
or any part of the amount which he may be entitled to receive as a
compensation for the privileges granted to the said company, any
thing in this act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAP. 167.

Individuals hold-
ing lands, through
which water is
brought, to have
the right of sub-
scribing amount
he may be entitled
to, on first day.

CHAPTER 168.

A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to incorporate a
Company to make a Turnpike Road from the Frederick
and Baltimore Turnpike Road, commencing at the west
end of Frederick-Town, to Harper's Ferry on the Potomac
river.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the fifteenth section of the act to which this is a supplement be and
the same is hereby repealed,
2. And be it enacted, That so much of the proviso, contained in the
seventh section of the said act, as exempts from toll militia-men on
days of training, and voters on days of election, attending the polls,
going to and returning from the same, be and the same is hereby
repealed.

Passed Feb 11, 1819

Fifteenth section
of act repealed.

Proviso in seventh
section repealed.

chapter 169.
An act relating to Vagrants in the City of Baltimore.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the act, entitled, An act relating to vagrants in the city of
Baltimore, passed at November session eighteen hundred and ele-
ven, be and the same is hereby repealed, annulled, and made void.
2. And be it enacted, That the act, entitled, An act relating to
vagrants in the city of Baltimore, passed at November session
eighteen hundred and four, be and the same is hereby revived and
declared to be in full force and virtue in law, any thing in any sta-
tute to the contrary notwithstanding.

Passed Feb. 11 1819
Act repealed.

Act revived.

chapter 170.
An act to regulate the manner of granting Licenses to Re-
tailers of Spirituous Liquors and to prevent persons from
dealing with Free Negroes after sun-set, in Kent county.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland. That
from and after the twentieth day of March next, it shall not be law-
ful for the judges of Kent county court, nor any of them, to grant
a license to any person to retail spirituous liquors, strong beer or
cider, in Kent county, unless the person applying for such license
shall, at the time of his or her application, exhibit to the said court
or judge the consent and approbation in writing of fifty of the free
white male inhabitants of the said county, above the age of twenty-
one years, who shall be residents in the election district of said
county in which such applicant proposes to retail, and twenty of
whom shall reside within eight miles of the said place, which con-
sent shall express the name of the person to be licensed, and the
place at which the applicant proposes to retail.

Passed Feb9 1819

Judges not to
grant license to
retail spirituous
liquors without
person apply ing
exhibits consent of
50 of the inhabi-

tants, &c.