| 1801.
CHAP. 54.
Penalty on altering
road without
licence. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
16. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons shall
alter or change, or in any manner obstruct or encroach upon, any
of the said roads, or any part or parts thereof, or cut down, destroy
or injure, any of the bridges, causeways, boundaries, marks
or directions, therein or thereon, without the licence of the justice
of the levy court obtained as aforesaid, every such person or persons,
being thereof convicted in the county court, shall forfeit and
pay a fine, in the discretion of the court, not exceeding the sum of
one hundred dollars, according to the nature and degree of the offence. |
| Proviso. |
17. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That
nothing in
this act contained shall be construed to make it the duty of the
overseers of the road aforesaid to make or repair any framed
bridge or bridges above fifteen feet in length, but they shall be continued
to be built and repaired in the same manner as at present;
and it is hereby declared to be the duty of every overseer aforesaid,
having any such bridge or bridges within their respective limits,
to clear the same of all drift logs, or other obstructions to the free
passage of the water, as often as need shall require, under the penalty
of five dollars for every neglect, to be recovered as other fines
are directed to be recovered by this act. |
Act repealed.
Proviso,
* Ch. 16. |
18. AND BE IT ENACTED, That from and after
the said first Monday
of April next, all and every act and acts of assembly, and every
clause and section thereof, which may respect the public roads
in the aforesaid counties, be and the same are hereby repealed; Provided
nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall be construed
or taken to affect any private act or acts of assembly granted upon
the application of any particular individual, or the act of assembly
passed at October session, in the year one thousand seven hundred
and fifty-three, * entitled, An act for repairing the public roads in
this province, or any act or acts of assembly for the building or repairing
of any bridge or bridges that are built or maintained at the
public or county charge. |
| Commencement. |
19. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
commence on the
first Monday in April next, and continue and be in force for the
term of two years from that time, and until the end of the next session
of assembly that shall happen thereafter.
Further continued by 1804, ch. 108,
to 30th October 1805, &c. and by annual
general continuing acts, 1805, ch. 109, &c. |
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Passed Dec. 31.
† 1798, ch. 105. |
CHAP. LV.
A Supplement to an act, † entitled, An act to establish and
incorporate
a Medical and Chirurgical Faculty or Society
in the State of Maryland.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 86. |
No person to practice
medicine or
surgery without
a licence. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, no person who is not already
a practitioner of medicine or surgery within this state, shall be
allowed to practice in either of the said branches, and receive payments
for the same, without having first obtained a licence agreeably
to the original act to which this is a supplement, under the penalty
of fifty dollars for each offence, to be recovered in the county
court where the offence is committed, by presentment and bill of indictment,
one half for the use of the faculty, the other half for the
informer. |
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