380 QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY. [ART. 17.

CLERK.

1870, c. 10 entitled an act to provide for the continuation of the general index of
judgments in Queen Anne's county, enacts as follows:

1. ' That the clerk of the circuit court for Queen Anne's county is hereby author-
ized and directed to continue the index of all judgments and decrees on the dockets
of said court from the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in the names of all
the parties to such judgments or decrees.

2. The county commissioners for Queen Anne's county are hereby required to levy
upon the assessable property of said county a sum sufficient to pay the clerk of said
court fifteen cents for each judgment and decree required by him to be indexed by

this act.

Approved end in force February 19, 1870.

FISH AND WILD FOWL.

For 1870, c. 231 entitled an act to protect fish and wild fowl in the waters of Queen
Anne, Kent, Caroline and Harford counties, see public local laws, Article VI, Caro-
line county, sub-title Fish and Wild Fowl, ante p. 280.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

See public local laws, Article II, Anne Arundel county, sub-title Justices of the
Peace, for the act of 1870, c. 434 to extend the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in
Queen Anne's and other counties to cases of assault and battery.

ROADS.

1870, c. 251 repeals section 108 as repealed and re-enacted by 1865, c. 161 [Sup. 1861-7,
p. 606] and enacts as follows:

1670, 0. 251. Gates not to be erected on pub- lic roads.	SEC. 108. On and after the first day of April, eigh- teen hundred and seventy-one, no person shall erect any gate on any public road in Queen Anne's county, and any person having a gate on any one of said pub-
Gates to be re- moved.	lic roads, shall remove it therefrom before said first day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and any person offending against either of the preceding provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misde-
Penalty.	meanor, and, on conviction thereof, be liable to a pen- alty, in the discretion of the county circuit court of not less than one hundred nor more than two hundred dol- lars. Approved April 7, 1870.