Repeal

Gates pro-
hibited,
exception.

Removal of
gates here-
after per-
mitted.

Penalty for
erecting.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any thing in the said
original act, which is repugnant to, or inconsistent with the
provisions of this act, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

AN ACT to prevent Gates on any of the Public Roads in Cecil County.
1827, ch 106.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the first day of August next, it shall not be
lawful for any gate to remain or to be erected on any public
road in Cecil county, without an application by petition shall
first be made to the levy court of said county, who may at their
discretion authoiize gates to be elected in the first election
district only.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if the levy court shall
hereafter become satisfied that any gate or gates which they
have authorized to be elected are unnecessary, they shall give
sixty days public notice to the pet son or persons who have
erected the same, to remove them, after which time if said gates
are not removed by the persons erecting them, he, she or they
shall forfeit and pay a sum of twenty-five dollars for eveiy gate
not removed, and an additional fine of one dollai per day for
every day that said gate shall remain after the expiration of the
said sixty days notice.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons
shall hereafter erect any gate or gates on any of the public
loads in said county, without first obtaining permission from
the levy court as afoiesaid, the person or peisons so offending,
shall forfeit and pay a sum of not less than twenty-five dollars,
nor more than fifty dollars, for every such offence, and an addi-
tional fine of one dollar per day for every day that the said gate
shall remain after judgment shall have been given against him,
her or them for the first offence.

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CECIL COUNTY.

teen hundred and twenty -one, has from reason of its ambiguity
been found inadequate to the purposes intended thereby;
therefore,

Levy court
empowered.

SEC. I. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the levy couits of Baltimore, Cecil and llaifoid counties,
in all cases when a number of respectable inhabitants of their
county shall apply to them in wilting, be and they are hereby
vested with full power to open any new road within their
county, or to open or continue open any road formery or now
used for the convenience of going to mill, market or to church,
as in their opinion may conduce most to the advantage and con-
venience of the public ; and the said courts may at their dis-
ci etion, requite the petitionets at their own expense, to open
any new load, or to re-open and continue open any old road,
and to do all such other acts as they are authorized to do by
the law to which this is a supplement.