ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 9

CHAPTER 7.

AN ACT to repeal Sections one hundred and sixty-
two, one hundred and sixty-three, one hundred
and sixty-four, one hundred and sixty-five, one
hundred and sixty-six, one hundred and sixty-
seven, one hundred and sixty-eight, one hun-
dred and sixty-nine, one hundred and seventy
and one hundred and seventy-one of Article six
of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Caro-
line County," sub-title "Roads," and to substi-
tute therefor the following:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Sections one hundred and sixty- two, one hundred and sixty-three, one hundred and sixty-four, one hundred and sixty-five, one hundred and sixty-six, one hundred and sixty- seven, one hundred and sixty-eight, one hundred and sixty-nine, one hundred and seventy and one hundred and seventy-one of Article six of the Public Local Laws, title "Caroline County," sub- title "Roads," be and the same are hereby re- pealed, and the following enacted in lieu thereof:	Repealed.
Sec. 162. And be it enacted by the General Assem- bly of Maryland, That any and every person hav- ing a gate or gates on any of the Public Roads in Caroline County, or any of the Public Roads dividing said County from adjoining Counties, be and he is hereby required to remove the same from any such Public Road, or Roads, on or before the first day of January eighteen hundred and seventy- one, and that any such person failing to comply with the requirements of this Act within the period	Remove gates.
herein specified, shall forfeit and pay for each gate the sum of fifty dollars, and a like sum for every four months additional failure to comply there- with, until the said gate or gates shall be removed, to be recovered with costs as other small debts are before a Justice of the Peace of the County having jurisdiction of the case, in the name of the State, one-half thereof for the use of the informer, the other half for the use of School Fund of said County. In all cases when new roads are laid	Penalty.