RETAILERS.

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this is an additional supplement, as authorizes the supervisors

of public roads in Allegany county, to summon and warn every

free able bodied male person, above the age of eighteen, to assist

in repairing the public roads, be, and is hereby repealed.

AN ACT relating to Public Roads in Allegany County.— 1837, ch. 240.

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

Proceedings

That from and after the passage of this act, all roads heretofore

made valid.

laid out and surveyed in Allegariy county as public roads, where

the requisitions of the existing laws have not been complied

with by the commissioners appointed so to lay out and open

said road or roads, and which have been approved of and con-

firmed by Allegany county court, be, and the same are hereby

declared valid and binding, to all intents and purposes, as if

such requisitions were fully followed and complied with as

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regards the width and other provisions of said law, and that

feet wide.

the said road shall be considered thirty feet in width.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That all roads hereafter to be made,

Width of

laid out or surveyed, shall not be less than thirty feet, and not

road.

more than forty feet in width, at the option of the commission-

ers ; and that such width be so returned by the said commis-

sioners appointed to lay out and survey such road or roads.

RETAILERS,

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act for Licensing and

Regulating Ordinary Keepers. — 1821, ch. 238.

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

Court may

That upon application by petition in writing to any county

grant li-
cense on

court, by any citizen thereof, for a license to keep an ordinary

petition &c.

or to retail spirituous liquors, and the payment of the sum

chargeable upon the same, and security appearing, the court

shall be and hereby is empowered to grant the license under the

same rules and regulations as are prescribed for the granting of

licenses when personal application is made ; and the recogni-

zance entered into by the security aforesaid, with the petitioner

named therein as principal, shall be as equally binding and ob-

ligatory upon the said petitioner, as if he had been personally

present ; and the license thus granted shall be of as full force

and effect as though it had been granted in the manner hereto-

fore directed, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That where any license has been

Heirs, &e.

or may hereafter be granted, and shall not have expired at the

to enjoy
benefit of

death of the party so obtaining the same, it shall and may be

license.

lawful for the heirs, executors or administrators of the said party,

to enjoy all the privileges which said license conferred on the

party who obtained the same ; Provided, the said heirs, execu-

Proviso.

tors or administrators as the case may be, shall give to the clerk

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