CHAP.
LXVIII.

Acts done de-
clared valid, 
&c.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Penalty for ex-
ecuting certain
powers, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Passed 3d of 
Jan. 1800.
 

Preamble.
 
 

Licence may be
granted, &c.
 
 
 
 
 

Preamble.
 

Justices to levy 
money, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Roads to be de-
scribed, &c.

profit or trust under the government of the United States, and doubts are entertained as to the va-
lidity of acts done under their authority; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That if any person holding, or having
held, an office of profit or trust under the government of the United States since the twenty-second
day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, hath acted, or shall have
acted at the same time, as an officer under the government of this state, in every such case all and
singular the act and acts done, performed or executed, by or before such person, by virute of his
official authority under this state, and within the proper limits of his jurisdiction, shall be and the
same are hereby declared valid and effectual to all intents and purposes, in like manner as if such
officers, at the time of doing or performing such acts, had not held any office of profit or trust under
the government of the United States.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person having accepted and holding any office of profit or
trust under the government of the United States, or whose office under this state shall be vacated by
the late provisions of the constitution and form of government of this state, shall, after the first day
of March next, exercise, perform or execute, any of the powers or duties of any office under the
authority of this state, every such person shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dol-
lars for every offence, to be recovered by indictment in the county court of the county wherein such
offender shall reside, and moreover shall be answerable for all damages which may be sustained by
any other person by reason or in conequence thereof, to be recovered by a special action upon the
case.

                                                CHAP. LXIX.
An ACT to enable the justices of Anne-Arundel county court to
   licencse and regulate a public ferry over South river, in said county.
   Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 316.

WHEREAS a road has been laid out by law from the city of Annapolis to the city of Wash-
ington, and a public ferry is about to be erected at a convenient place over South river,
where the said road crosses,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of Anne-Arundel coun-
ty court may, at their discretion, grant a licence for regulating the said ferry as a county ferry, if
in their opinion it will be for the benefit and advantage of said county.

                                             CHAP. LXX.
An ACT relating to the public roads in Queen-Anne's county.
   Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 317.

WHEREAS the present laws relating to the public roads in Queen-Anne's county are in part
inadequate to the purposes for which they were intended; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court for
Queen-Anne's county, or a majority of them, at their annual meeting at the time for holding their
levy court at the court-house in Centre-Ville, shall levy, by equal assessment, on the assessable pro-
perty within the said county, a sum of money not exceeding three shillings on every hundred pounds
of assessable property, to be collected as other county taxes, and paid to the justices of the levy court,
or to their order, and shall be applied towards streightening, amending and keeping in repair, the
public roads in the said county; and the said justices, or a majority of them, shall have full power
and authority to appropriate the funds arising from the said tax to the public roads in the said county,
and shall apportion the same in just proportions among all the public roads of the said county, regard-
ing the situation and quantity of labour necessary for the improvement of such roads.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of the levy court for the county aforesaid, or a ma-
jority of them, when so met together as aforesaid, shall be and they are hereby authorised and re-
quired to describe, ascertain, and distinctly record in a well bound book to be provided by them for
that purpose, the several and respective public roads in the said county, and to nominate and appoint,
by warrant under the hand of the clerk, and seal of his office, capable and proper persons as super-
visors of the several and respective roads aforesaid, according to the number and divisions of the said
                                                                                                                                              roads,