| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
with one or more sufficient sureties if required, for the faithful
performance of their duties, in such manner and form as may
be required by the president and managers, or a majority of them,
or as may be prescribed by their by-laws. |
1815.
CHAP. 9. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
or persons shall
cut, damage or destroy, any turnpike gate, bridge, culvert, or improvements
of the said company within this state, made or which
hereafter shall be made, he, she or they, so offending, shall, and
each of them shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum
of thirty dollars, to be sued for and recovered, with costs of suit,
by action of debt, by any justice of the peace, and also the damage
sustained for the injury done or to be done, may be sued for
and recovered as in other cases. |
Penalty for damaging
any turnpike
gate. |
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CHAP. X.
An Act to alter and change the place of holding the Elections in
the
third Election District in Worcester County. Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol.
411.
A Supplement, 1816, ch 98. See 1805, ch. 97. |
Passed Dec. 18. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the judges of elections for the third election district in Worcester
county, be and they are hereby authorised and directed, to hold in
future the elections in said district in such house in the village of
Berlin as may appear to them the most convenient.
See 1818, ch. 98. |
Place of holding
the election changed. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the said judges
shall have
made choice of a fit and proper house in said village for holding the
elections, and shall have returned a certificate thereof under their
hands and seals, or the hands and seals of a majority of them, to
the clerk of the county court in said county, to be recorded, the
same shall thereafter be the place of holding the elections for the
third election district in said county, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Return to be made
and recorded. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said judges
shall return said
certificate to the clerk of Worcester county court, on or before the
fifteenth day of July next, and the said clerk shall record the same
among the records of Worcester county court. |
When return to be
made. |
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CHAP. XI.
A Supplement to an act*, entitled, An act for the benefit of the
Heirs of
Joshua Flemming, late of Worcester County, deceased.
Lib. TH.
No. 4, fol. 412. A Private Act. |
Passed Dec. 18. |
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CHAP. XII.
An Act to alter the times of holding the County Courts in Frederick
and
Washington Counties. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 412.
See 1805, ch. 65. |
Passed Dec. 19. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the times
of holding the county courts of Frederick and Washington counties
are found inconvenient; therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the county courts of Frederick county shall hereafter commence
and be held on the first Monday in March in each year, instead of
the first Monday of February, and on the fourth Monday in October |
Courts, when to be
held. |
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