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129. Any person who shall put, place or make any weir or
hedge in the channel or mouth of the northwest branch so as in
any manner to injure the navigation thereof, or in and across the
northwest fork branch of said river so as to stop the passage of
boats, vessels or scows, shall forfeit the sum of twenty dollars, to
be recovered before a justice of the peace' in the same manner as
small debts are recovered, one-half to the informer or person who
will sue for the same, the other half to the use of Dorchester
county.

130. All weirs and hedges in the channel of the rivers Trans-
quakin and Chicknamacomico, or either of them, which in any
manner injure the navigation thereof, shall be deemed nuisances,
and any person may take out and destroy them.

131. No free person shall place any weir or hedge in the channel
or mouth of either of said rivers so as in any manner to injure the
navigation thereof, under the penalty of ten dollars for every
such offence, to be recovered before a justice of the peace in the
same manner as small debts are recovered, one-half to the in-
former or person who will sue for the same, the other half to the
use of Dorchester county.

132. If any slave, without the direction of his master or over-
seer, shall erect or place any such weir or hedge in either of said
rivers, he shall for every offence, by the judgment of a justice of
the peace, be punished with whipping, not exceeding twenty
lashes; but the master or any other person may redeem such
slave from said punishment by paying the fine imposed for the
like offence upon a free person.

EAST NEW MARKET.

133. The citizens of the town of East New Market in Dor-
chester county are a body politic by the name of " The Commis-
sioners of East New Market," with all the privileges of a body
corporate, and have a common seal.

134*. The white mal» citizens of East New Market of the age
of twenty-one years and upwards, who have resided in said town
for six months preceding the election and are otherwise quali-
fied voters by law, shall on the first Saturday of July, eighteen
hundred and sixty, between the hours of twelve o'clock M. and
three o'clock P.M., elect five commissioners for said town, who