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and shall be sentenced as for feloniously stealing goods or chattels, to the
value of the tree or trees which shall be cut down as aforesaid, and of
the injury thereby occasioned.

HUCKSTERS.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 166. 1867, ch. 272.

285. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, not permanent
residents of this State, to come into Allegany, Washington or Harford
Counties for the purpose of carrying on the business of huckstering by
gathering butter, eggs, poultry, etc., without having first obtained from
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for such county a license therefor.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 167. 1867, ch. 272.

286. For any and every license thus granted, the said clerk shall
be entitled to receive as follows: for a license to employ not more than
one team of not less than three horses or mules, the sum of eighty dollars;
for a license to employ not more than one team of not more than two
horses or mules, the sum of sixty dollars; for a license to employ not more
than one team of more than one horse or mule, the sum of forty dollars.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 168. 1867, ch. 272.

287. Any person or persons violating the provisions of Section 285,
upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of fifty dollars, which
fine shall be collectible as small debts are now collected, one-half of the
informer and the other half to be applied to the use of the public schools
of said county.

INSANE ASYLUM.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 169. 1880, ch. 267.

288. The County Commissioners are authorized to build and main-
tain an insane asylum in said county for the safe keeping and treatment
of insane paupers necessary to be maintained at the expense of the county,
and of any other insane persons who may be received therein by order
of said commissioners.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 170. 1880, ch. 267.

289. They shall have full power to contract for the purchase of suitable
land on which to erect the same, and to take and receive a deed of con-
veyance therefor, and to enter into a contract or contracts for the erection
of a suitable building or buildings for said purpose, and for the purchase
of materials for the same, and for the doing of all other acts necessary
or proper to be done in carrying out said design.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 171. 1880, ch. 267. 1910, ch. 585 (p. 523).

290. The County Commissioners shall have full power to appoint such
managers, keepers, superintendents and physicians therefor as may be