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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
the receipt thereof, pay over to the trustees of the poor of Dorchester
county one half of the money received as aforesaid, such
person or persons shall forfeit the whole of the money so received,
for the use of the poor of said county, which money, so forfeited,
may be recovered by the trustees aforesaid in the same manner as
other debts of like amount may be recovered. |
1802.
CHAP. 22. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons shall, by
violence or force, take swine or geese, or any of them, out of
the possession of any person or persons seizing and securing
the same by virtue of this act, without first paying for the same as
aforesaid, and shall be thereof convicted, either by confession or
verdict, said person or persons shall be fined in a sum not exceeding
twenty dollars current money for every such offence. |
--for taking
swine and geese
by force, &c. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person shall
be sued or
impleaded for any thing done by virtue of this act, the defendant
may plead the general issue, and give this act and the special matter
in evidence.
See 1804, ch. 70. |
General issue may
be plead. |
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CHAP. XXIII.
A Supplement to the act, * entitled, An act to appoint and authorise
Commissioners to review and lay out the Road therein
mentioned
in Harford County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 227. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803.
* 1801, ch. 49. |
WHEREAS Thomas Johnson of Harford county, hath by
his petition
to this general assembly, represented, that he is injured by
the road as laid out under the original act to which this is a supplement,
and that the said road may be laid out with less injury to the
petitioner, and with as much convenience to the public, and praying
that the said road may be again reviewed; and the same being reasonable,
therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the commissioners in the said original act named, or a majority of
them, be and they are hereby authorised and required to review the
said road laid out under the said original act, beginning at the end
of the last line but one of the said road, and to lay out the same so
as to intersect the road leading from the Bald Friar ferry to the
Peach Bottom ferry at or near Ezekiel William's house, and to return
a plot of such alteration to the levy court of said county; and
the overseer or overseers appointed in virtue of the said original
act shall open the same, and when opened, the same shall be kept in
repair as the other part of said road is directed to be kept in repair. |
A certain road to
be reviewed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall have
an allowance of two dollars for every day they severally attend in
discharge of the duties required by this act. |
Allowance to
commissioners. |
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CHAP. XXIV.
A Supplement to the act, † entitled, An act to prevent the
going at
large of Geese and Swine in the Town of Havre-de-Grace,
in Harford
County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 227. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803.
† 1798, ch. 51. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the constable of said town, or any
other person that may be appointed by the commissioners, to seize
and impound any geese or swine he shall find going at large therein, |
Geese or swine
going at large may
be seized and impounded. |
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