1758 ST. MARY'S COUNTY. [ART. 19.

half to the informer and the other half to the county commis-
sioners, for the benefit of the school fund of said county.

RECORDS, BURNT.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 18, sec. 86.

97. A copy of any deed, mortgage, bill of sale or will, re-
corded in pursuance of the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-
one, chapter one hundred and seventy-five, or the act of the same
year, chapter one hundred and twenty-seven, and which has
been recorded by the clerk of the circuit court for St. Mary's
county, under the provisions of said acts, shall be as available in
evidence as a copy of either of said papers would have been if
the same had been taken from the original record books which
were burnt.

REMOVAL OF PROPERTY LEVIED ON.

1876, ch. 180.

98. Any person in St. Mary's county who shall be guilty of
disposing of property that has been levied upon by the proper
law officer, and thereby defeating the object of the law, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be held responsible for twice the amount of property so disposed
of; and on failure to pay the same, shall be imprisoned in the
county jail for a period of not more than six months, or until
said fine shall be paid.

RETAILERS OF LIQUOR.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 18, sec. 88.

99. No licensed retailer of spirituous liquors in said county
shall be held to answer for any violation of law forbidding spirit-
uous liquors to be drunk in and about his premises, but such
prohibition shall be inoperative in said county.

ROADS.

1878, ch. 499.

100. The county commissioners are authorized and empow-
ered to control and regulate the public roads of said county; they
shall levy upon the assessable property of said county a sum of