1833

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

	CHAP. 206. Oath	Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners or a majority of them, before they proceed to act, shall take an oath or affirmation, before some justice of the peace, that they will without favour, partiality or prejudice, assess the damages sustained by the persons through whose lands said road may pass.
	Repeal	Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts, inconsistent with, or contrary to the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed, so far as the same may conflict with the provisions of this act.

		CHAPTER 206.
	Passed Mar. 10, 1834	An act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act to incorpo- rate the town of Boonsborough, Slifers Addition, Hatter's Addition, and Allabough's Addition, to Boonsborough, in Washington county , passed at December session, eigh- teen hundred and thirty one, chapter one hundred and thirty nine.
	Preamble— swine	WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly of Maryland, by the petition of the Burgess and commission- ers of the town of Boonsborough, and the additions there- to, that doubts are entertained by the said Burgess and commissioners, as to the extent of power conferred on them by their act of incorporation, in' relation to the tak- ing up and impounding of swine found running at large within the said town and its additions, and owned by per- sons who reside without the limits of the said town and its additions; — Therefore,
	Authority granted	Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Burgess and commissioners of the town of Boons- borough, and the additions thereto, be and they are here- by authorised to take up and impound all such swine, as may be running at large within the said town and the ad- ditions thereto, under such regulations as the said Burgess and commissioners may ordain, whether such swine be- long to the citizens of the said town and its additions, or to persons who reside without the limits of the corpora- tion.