| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
the said village, or such persons holding real property therein,
and the five persons who shall appear to have the greatest number
of votes at the close of the election, shall be declared duly elected
the commissioners of said village, and shall have and exercise the
several powers and authority delegated to them by this act. |
1817.
CHAP. 160. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, immediately
after their election, shall proceed to enact such by-laws
or regulations, not contrary to the laws of this state, as they may
deem proper for the observance of good order in the village aforesaid,
and that such by-laws or ordinances shall be recorded in a
book subject to the inspection of the inhabitants of said village at
all times. |
May make by-laws. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
are empowered
to mark and bound the limits of the said village, to any
extent to which the property of the inhabitants may extend, and
any law or regulation that may be enacted by the commissioners
aforesaid, shall be, and is hereby declared to be, in full force to
such extent. |
Limits of village
to be marked. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any vacancy
shall happen in
the office of one or more of the commissioners, by death, resignation,
removal or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the remaining
commissioners, and they are hereby required, to cause an election
to be made in said village by the inhabitants thereof, and others
qualified to vote as aforesaid, of one or more judicious and discreet
persons, resident as aforesaid, to supply every such vacancy during
the remainder of the term, and the time of holding such intervening
election shall be previously notified for the space of ten days
previous to the election. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
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CHAP. CLXI.
A Supplement to an act*, entitled, An act for the Preservation of
the
Breed of Wild Deer in Somerset and Dorchester
Counties. Lib.
TH. No. 6, fol. 93. |
Passed Feb. 12, 1818.
* 1799, ch. 18. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful for
any person or persons whatsoever, to shoot, or otherwise destroy,
any wild deer in Somerset or Dorchester counties, at any period
within three years from the passage of this law, under the penalty
of forty dollars, one half of which shall be applied to the use of
the county, and the other half to the person who shall make information
thereof, for ever deer so killed or destroyed, to be recovered
in the same manner as prescribed by the act to which this is a
supplement. |
Penalty for killing
deer. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That after the expiration
of the aforesaid
term of three years, no person or persons whatsoever shall
shoot, kill, or otherwise destroy, any deer, except within the period
as prescribed by the act to which this is a supplement. |
Not to be killed
for three years. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any person or persons
whatsoever,
in whose hands or custody any deer flesh or deer skin or skins
shall be found, that shall appear to have been killed contrary to
this act, shall be deemed, taken and adjudged, the killer or destroyer
of such deer, and liable to the penalty aforesaid, unless such
person or persons shall make it appear who it was that really
killed the same, or from whom such person possessed thereof shall |
Persons in whose
hands any deer's
flesh may be found
to be considered
the killer. |
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