ROADS.

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SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That all and every part or parts
of the original law inconsistent with or repugnant to the pro-
visions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

AN ACT relating to the Public Roads in Queen Anne's and Kent Counties.
1829, ch. 152.
See 'Kent County,' title 'Roads,' ante page 2015.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act authorizing Gates
to be kept on the Public Roads in Queen Anne's County, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, chapter one
hundred and seven — 1831, ch. 37.

Repealing
clause.

WHEREAS, that part of the original law to which this is a
supplement, which relates to the recovery of the tax on gates,
in case of neglect, by bill of indictment, of the grand jury, is
not only oppressive on the persons indicted, but is a conside-
rable tax on the county ; therefore,

Preamble.

SEC. I. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the fourth and fifth sections in the original law, to which
this is a supplement, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Repeal.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
supervisors of the public roads, at the time they render their
accounts for settlement to the levy court, to accompany the
same, with a list, under oath, of the number of gates which
are on the road, of which he is supervisor, and designate to
whom they belong. And when a list of gates has been so ren-
dered by the supervisor, the person or persons to whom they
belong, shall stand charged, annually, on the books of the col-
lector, therewith, until the said owner or owners of such
gate or gates, shall satisfy the levy court of their abatement
and removal; and the supervisor having once returned a list of
gates, under the provisions of this act, shall thereafter be
required, to return annually, only such gate or gates as may
be put up on the road, subsequently to his preceding return.

Supervisors
to return
lists of gates
and to
whom they
belong.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the levy court of said
county, shall, when making out the list of taxes, enter to each
owner or owners of a gate or gates, on the public roads in
the said county, the amount of their gate tax, in addition to
their regular county tax, to be collected by the collector of the
county tax, as their taxes are, and not by bill of indictment
by the grand jury, as in the original law to which this is a
supplement.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act authorizing Gates to
be kept on the Public Roads in Queen Anne's County, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, chapter one hun-
dred and sixty-seven.— 1834, ch. 271.

Persons to
stand
charged
therewith
till removal.
Gate tax.

How col-
lected.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the tax provided to be laid by the fourth section of the act to

Tax pre-
scribed.