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Supplement to the Maryland Code, Containing the Acts of the General Assembly, Passed at the Session of 1868
Volume 385, Page 344   View pdf image (33K)
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344 KENT COUNTY. [ART. 14.

and eighty-one to seventeen hundred and ninety, shall need to be transcribed to
preserve the said record of wills, that they cause the register of wills to transcribe
the same in a well bound book, fairly indexed, and in a good and legible hand
writing, and if in their judgment any of the record books in said office shall abso-
lutely need binding, that they order and direct the register to have the same re-
bound in a good and substantial manner, and if any of the indexes to them shall be
imperfect, to direct that the same be made perfect; and that the register of wills of
Kent county be and he is hereby authorized and required to make, or cause to be
made, a general index of all wills recorded in his office, noting the liber, page and
date, and cause the same to be well and strongly bound with blank leaves at the end
of each principal letter, on which, from time to time, shall be entered such other
wills as may be proved and recorded, and that the said orphans' court, after the
whole work aforesaid shall be completed, shall certify the cost thereof to the county
commissioners, who shall cause the same to be levied on the assessable property of
Kent county for the use of the said register of wills, provided that the same shall not
exceed in amount the sum of five hundred dollars.

ROADS.
1S6S, c. 182 amends this article by adding thereto a section to read as follows:

1868, c 132
Sidewalks of
roads

169. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons
to ride, drive or lead any horse, mare, mule, oxen, cow

Driving, &c,
horses, &c,
over.

or other animal on or over the sidewalk on the western
side of the main road leading from Galena, where the
roads cross, to the hill at Georgetown, nor on the side-
walk on the northern and eastern side of the public
road leading from the north-western precincts of Ches-
tertown to the westernmost corner of Chester Cemetery
on the road to Wheland's Mills, and any person thus

Penalty.

offending, shall be subject to a fine of two dollars for
the first offence, and three dollars for every subsequent
offence, to be recovered before a justice of the peace as
small debts are recovered, in the name of the county
commissioners for Kent county, and such moneys when
recovered shall be paid to them to be expended under
their directions, for the purpose of repairing and im-
proving respectively, the said sidewalks, which shall

Proviso.

not exceed eight feet in width on their surface; pro-
vided, that nothing in this act shall prevent persons '
riding or driving across said sidewalks to obtain access
to adjoining lands, or for the purpose of entering the
grounds of Chester cemetery.

In force and approved March 28, 1868.



 

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