160                                 Laws of Maryland                         [Ch. 139

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 3 (n) of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Elections", sub-title "Supervisors of Elections
and Employees", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

3.

(n) Harford County: [$400.] $600.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved March 3, 1959.

CHAPTER 139
(House Bill 150)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 227 of
Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Corporations", sub-title "Railroad Companies", making the
provisions of said section applicable to all type railroads and
engines.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 227 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Corporations", sub-title "Railroad Companies",
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

227. Whenever the several railroads of this State [, operated by
steam,] shall cross any public highway at grade outside the corporate
limits of cities, and any such highway shall be believed to be of such
a character as to render the passage of locomotives and trains
thereon dangerous to life and property, it shall be the duty of the
commissioners of the county in which such point of crossing shall
be located, to notify the company owning or operating the railroad
at such point, by serving a written notice on the superintendent or
other agent of such railroad company in said county, that the said
county commissioners will, thirty days thereafter, consider the
necessity of further protection against danger at said crossing; and
if, after the expiration of said thirty days said county commissioners,
or a majority of them, shall determine that such protection is neces-
sary, they shall notify said railroad company through its superin-
tendent or ticket agent in said county, that within sixty days there-
after, said railroad company shall either place a flagman at said
crossing, whose duty it shall be to give timely notice to all persons
using said crossing, of the approach of all locomotives or trains, or a
system of electric alarm bells, to give such notice at the approach

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