of the limits of the said city, shall forfeit and
pay to the Sheriff" of the city the sum of three
hundred dollars; said penalty to be imposed as a fine
by the Criminal Court on presentment and indict-
ment by the Grand Jury and conviction in due course
of law, and one-third of the penalty shall be paid by
the Sheriff to the informer, and the residue shall be
accounted for by the Sheriff to the Treasury as other
fines; if any person so licensed shall be guilty of a
fraud by reason of collusion with any parties, he shall
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall, on
presentment and indictment therefor and conviction
thereof, forfeit and pay a fine of not less than five
hundred dollars or more than one thousand dollars,
for every such offence, or be imprisoned, in the dis-
cretion of the Court, for a time not exceeding three
years, or both, and shall also be liable in damages at
the suit of the party aggrieved.
SEC. 9. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take
effect from and after the date of its passage, and all
Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are
hereby repealed. .
Approved April 1, 1872.
CHAPTER 265.
AN ACT supplementary to an Act, entitled " An
Act to incorporate the Queenstown and Harring-
ton Railway Company, chapter three hundred and
fifty-four, passed March twenty-second, eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the time for commencing and con-
structing the Queenstown and Harrington Railway
is hereby extended for the term of three years from
from the time specified in chapter three hundred and
forty-one of the Laws of Maryland, passed March the
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
Approved April 1, 1872.
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fraud and
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Time for con-
struction of
railway ex-
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