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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
shall give notice thereof, within six hours, to the clerk of
the market, who shall view, and examine said swine, goats or geese,
and advertise the same at the market-house, and at some two public
houses in the said town, describing their number, colour and
marks, both natural and artificial, and shall try, or have them cried,
at the market-house, at market-hours, and if the owner or owners
shall appear in twenty-four hours after such crying and pay the
sum of fifty cents for each hog or goat, and twelve and one half
cents for each goose, they shall be released, but if the owner shall
not pay the sum or sums aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the clerk
of the market, and he is hereby directed and required, to advertise
said swine, goats or geese, to be sold at public sale; and the person
impounding shall keep them thus impounded for not less than five
days; and unless the owner or owners shall appear within five days,
and pay the sum of two dollars for each hog or goat, and twenty-five
cents for each goose, they shall be sold at public vendue by the
clerk of said market, and the money arising from said sale, after
paying every expense, shall be paid over to the commissioners of
said town, for the use of said town. |
1802.
CHAP. 79. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any swine, goats
or geese, after
being released as aforesaid, shall be a second time found going at
large in the said town, within half a mile of the market-house, or
shall be found trespassing within any enclosure within one mile from
the said market-house, it shall and may be lawful for the person or
persons who had before impounded such swine, goats or geese, or
other person or persons in their behalf, to shoot, or otherwise kill
and destroy, such swine, goats or geese, so found going at large
or trespassing as aforesaid; and if any person or persons 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. |
In certain cases
they may be killed. |
3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the fourth
section of an
act passed at November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-three,
* entitled, An additional supplement to an act, entitled, An
act to remove the market-house at the Head of Elk, and establish
the same, and for the advancement and regulation of the said town,
shall be and the same is hereby repealed. |
Section repealed.
* Ch. 42. |
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CHAP. LXXX.
A Supplement to the act, † entitled, An act to repeal an
act, ‡ entitled,
An act to lay out several Turnpike Roads in Baltimore
County,
and the several supplements thereto, and for other purposes.
Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 287. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803.
† 1801, ch. 77.
‡ April 1787, ch. 23. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that all
that part of the Reister's-town turnpike road in Baltimore county,
which lies between Samuel Owing's mills and Reister's-town, and
which at certain sessions of the year was heretofore impassable,
has, in the course of last summer, been so repaired that it can be
travelled with safety; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court of the county aforesaid shall be and
are hereby authorised and required, to direct the supervisor of the
turnpike roads in said county to expend annually on the Reister's-town
turnpike road, the York turnpike road, and the Frederick |
Proportion of money
levied to be
expended on certain
roads. |
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