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CHAP. 70. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
States, in shares of any of the road stock in the state of Maryland,
or any other stocks or funds already created, or that may
hereafter be created, as to the president and directors of the said
company shall appear the most secure and likely to be the most beneficial
to the institution, any thing in the original act, or supplements
thereto, to the contrary notwithstanding.
By 1804, ch. 37, the original act,
and the supplements, are continued to the
first of February 1820, &c. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
CHAP. LXXI.
An Act to encourage the destruction of Crows in the several Counties
therein mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 386. |
Twelve and a
half cents allowed
in certain counties,
for each
crow's head, &c. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
if any person residing in Prince-George's, Cecil, Anne-Arundel,
Saint-Mary's, Calvert, Charles, Baltimore, Kent and Worcester
counties, shall bring to any justice of the peace of the county in
which such persons shall reside, the head or heads of any crow or
crows, such person shall for every such head be allowed, in the
county levy of said county, the sum of twelve and an half cents,
and the justices of the peace before whom such head or heads shall
be brought, are hereby required to give the person bringing the
same a certificate thereof, and cause the said head or heads to be
burnt or otherwise destroyed.
This act repealed, as to Calvert by
1817, ch. 147; as to Saint-Mary's, by
December 1813, ch. 5; and as to Kent, by 1817, ch. 10. |
No person entitled
to such allowance
without making
oath that they
were killed in the
county where certificate
is applied for. |
2. PROVIDED NEVERTHELESS, AND BE IT ENACTED,
That no
person whatsoever shall be entitled for any allowance for any such
head or heads, without first making oath, or affirmation, as the case
may be, that such crow or crows was or were killed in the county
where such certificate is applied for, and that no certificate is
applied
for, and that no certificate hath been obtained from any other
justice of the peace for the same; and that it shall be the duty of
each and every justice of the peace before whom such head or heads
may be brought, by virtue of this or any other act now existing for
the destruction of crows, to take and receive the oath or affirmation,
any
of the party bringing the same, free and clear from all charges
against the person or persons making such oath or affirmation, any
thing in any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
| Acts repealed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all acts (a) relative
to the destruction
of crows in the several counties herein mentioned, heretofore
passed, be and the same are hereby repealed.
(a) 1803, ch. 96; and 1804, ch. 35. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
CHAP. LXXII.
An Act to lay out and make public a Road therein mentioned in Harford
County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 387. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Harford county, that a public road
laid out from James McComas's saw mill, to intersect the post road
leading from Baltimore to Havre-de-Grace at or near Onion's
works, on the Little Falls of Gunpowder, would be of great public
utility; therefore, |
Commissioners
appointed to review
a road. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
William Wilson, John Weston and James Amos, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority of them, |
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