GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

the proceedings upon such view; Provided, that the said

CHAP. 898.

company, their officers, or agents shall not occupy, hold or

possess any piece or parcel of land, without the consent of

the owner or owners thereof, longer than the said jury shall

declare necessary for obtaining earth, stone, timber, or

other materials needed at the time for repairing the said ca-

nal, and Us appurtenant works.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That the several sections or

Operation of this

provisions of this act shall respectively commence and take

act

effect, so far as regards the state of Maryland, from the

passage thereof; as regards the United States, and the state

of Virginia, so far as they may respectively assent to any or

all of its provisions, and on receiving the further assent of

the legislature of Pennsylvania, they shall he deemed to be,

so far as such assent may extend, a part of the charter of

the Chesapeake and Ohio canal company.

CHAPTER 293

A further additional supplement to the act of December Sea-

ramdMar.14.tsn

sion, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, chapter one hun-

dred and seventeen, entitled, An act to regulate the issuing

of Licenses to Traders, Keepers of Ordinaries, and others.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

Maximum price of

no lax shall be paid by any ordinary keeper, under the pro-

ordinary licenses
fixed.

visions of the original act to which this is a further addi-

tional supplement, or any of its supplements, exceeding the

sum of one hundred, nor less than eighteen dollars per an-

num; which sum shall be considered as including the tax of

five percent, on the rent or annual value directed to be as-

sessed by the act of the present session, entitled, An addi-

tional supplement to the ace passed at December session,

eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, chapter one hundred

and seventeen, entitled, An act to regulate the issuing of li-

censes to traders, keepers of ordinaries, and others, any

thing in the said additional supplement, to the contrary not-

withstanding.

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