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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 58.
AN ACT to authorize and direct the Board of County Com-
missioners of Carroll County, to erect and maintain boards
so painted and marked with letters and figures as to indi-
cate the directions of and distance to the nearest town, city,
village, postoffice, turnpike or main road, at the intersection
of all county roads in said county.

Carroll co.
Sign boards,
Public roads.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Board of County Commissioners of Carroll
County shall erect and maintain boards, so painted with letters
and figures as to indicate the direction of and distance to the
nearest city, town, village, postoffice, turnpike or main road
in said county, said boards shall be placed at the intersection
of all county roads in said county, and in a conspicuous place
upon substantial posts, said boards shall be not less than six
inches broad and not less than two feet long.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That after the erection of said
boards they shall be repaired, renewed and maintained by the
road commissioners in the respective districts in said county
from the fund collected for roads in said districts.

Penalty for
defacing, etc,

SEC. 3. And b e it enacted, That any person who shall deface,
tear down or destroy any of said boards or posts maliciously,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon indictment and
conviction, shall be fined a sum not exceeding ten ($10)
dollars, and in default of the payment of said fine and cost
of prosecution, shall be confined in the county jail for a
period not exceeding ten days.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 8, 1900.

CHAPTER 59.
AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to be placed to the
credit of the oyster fund for payment of salaries and expen-
ses of the oyster police force of the State of Maryland from
October first, eighteen hundred and ninety -nine, to October
first, nineteen hundred.

Appropriation
Oyster Police
Force.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Comptroller be and he is hereby directed to
issue his warrant upon the Treasurer of the State, in favor of