1874.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 645

Mr. Bond, Chairman of a Select Committee, (the rules be-
ing suspended,) reported favorably,

A bill entitled an Act to authorize the Governor to ap-
point one additional Justice of the Peace for the second elec-
tion district of St. Mary's county.

Which was read a first time.

The bill entitled an Act to incorporate the town of Bel Air,
in Harford county,

Being upon a second reading,

Mr. Lee submitted the following amendment:

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Add the following section, to come in after section 14, and
be numbered section 15 : SECTION 15. And the General As-
sembly of Maryland hereby reserves to itself the right to
alter, amend or repeal this Act at its pleasure; make section
15 read section 16.

The proposed amendments were adopted, and the bill, as
amended, was read a second time and ordered to be engrossed
for a third reading.

The bill entitled an Act to repeal sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21, of
Article 3, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Baltimore
County," sub-title "Roads," passed at the January session
of the Legislature of 1870, chapter 309, and to re-enact the
same with amendments, so as to read as follows,

Being upon a second reading,

Mr. Matthews submitted the following amendment:

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

After the word "charged," in the fifty-fourth line, of the
seventeenth section, add the following : "And provided fur-
ther, That the County Commissioners of said county shall, in
no case, pay any Supervisor any money on account of his own
per diem, or the wages of any of his hands, or any of his ex-
penditures whatever, unless he shall also make affidavit that
he has posted in two of the most public places in his sub-
road district a copy of the detailed account presented to the
said Commissioners for payment, and any person defacing
or tearing down said copy within thirty days after the same
shall have been posted, shall be liable to a fine of not less
than five nor more than twenty-five dollars and costs, to be
collected as small fines are usually collected, one-half to go to
the informer and the other half to go to the Road Fund of
the county."