FINGER BOARDS— FISH.

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FENCES.

AN ACT regulating Fences in Charles and Allegany Counties. — 1826, ch. 82.

Repealed by 1828, ch. 101. See post 'Charles County,' title 'Fences.1

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act regulating Fences in Charles

and Allegany Counties, passed at December session, eighteen hundred

and twenty-six, chapter eighty-two. — 1827, ch. 150.

See preceding note.

FINGER BOARDS OR INDEXES.

AN ACT authorizing and requiring the erection of Indexes or Finger Boards

in the several counties therein mentioned. — 1825, ch. 172.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

Levy court

That it shall be the duty of the levy courts of Frederick, Wash-

directed to
cause in-

ington and Allegany counties, to direct the supervisors of the

dexes to be

public roads to cause to be erected and kept up at the expense

erected.

of the counties at all public cross roads, and where public roads

fork ; indexes or finger boards pointing to the nearest town,

mill, or other public place where said roads lead, with the

names of said places, and the distances thereto, legibly inscribed

thereon.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That if any person or persons

Penalty for

shall wantonly injure, deface, or pull down, any such index or

injuring.

indexes, finger board or finger boards, such person or persons

so offending, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five

dollars for every offence, to be recovered by warrant before a

justice of the peace, in the same manner as other small debts

are recoverable, one-half to go to the informer, and the other

half to the use of the counties.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That the aforesaid supervisors

Account on

shall return to the levy courts of said counties a correct ac-

oath; levy.

count, on oath, of the sums of money expended in the erection

and keeping up such indexes; and it shall be the duty of the

said levy courts, to levy such sum or sums of money on the

assessable property of said counties, and collected as other

county taxes are collected.

FISH.

AN ACT to repeal an Act, entitled, an Act for the preservation of Fish in

Allegany County, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and

thirty-one.--l832, ch. 14.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

Repeal.

the act for the preservation of fish in Allegany county, passed

at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter

two hundred and thirty-one, be, and the same is hereby repealed.