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CHAP. 219.

LAWS OF MARYLAND,

CHAPTER, 218.

Pawed Mar.6,1832

A further additional supplement to an act, entitled An act to
incorporate a Company for the purpose of cutting and
making a Canal between the River Delaware,and the Ches-
apeake Bay, passed at November session, seventeen hun-
dred and ninety -nine, chapter sixteen.

Case of attempting
fraud.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That if any master or agent, of any ves-
sel or boat, shall fraudulently present to the collector of
tolls, or any other agent of the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal Company, a false manifest, or account of cargo of
any vessel or boat, about passing through the Canal, or give
a false statement of the toll thereon, or otherwise attempt
to defraud in the said tolls, on conviction thereof, before
any justice of the peace of this state, shall incur the penal-

Penalty.

ty of twenty dollars, to be recovered before some justice
of the peace, as small debts are recovered; one half to the
informer giving information and prosecuting the offender to

Appeal provided.

conviction, and the other half to the state; Provided, That
the party aggrieved by the said judgment may appeal to
the county court, of the county in which the said judgment
may have been rendered, to be tried, as other cases of ap-
peals are from judgments of justices of the peace in this
state are now tried.

Damages for de-
tention.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted. That if any vessel or boat,
shall be improperly or illegally detained under the provi-
sions of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the master or
agent, of any such vessel or boat, to recover in action of
debt, before any justice of the peace in this state, of and
from the collector of the tolls or other agent of said Canal
company, the sum cf five dollars per day, for each and
every day his vessel or boat may be detained.

CHAPTER 219.

Passed Mar. 6, 1832

A supplement to an act entitled, An act to incorporate the
trustees of Abingdon Academy, in Harford county, passed
at December session eighteen hundred and twenty-nine,
chapter thirty-seven.

Preamble

WHEREAS, by the act to which this is a supplement, the
subscribers or stockholders of the Abingdon Academy,
were created a body politic, with the usual powers incident
to such corporations; And whereas, the said subscribers or