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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

public road in Calvert county; and any person vio-
lating; this section shall, on conviction thereof before

a justice of the peace, be adjudged guilty of a mis-

demeanor, and be fined not less than twenty-five nor

more than fifty dollars, which fine shall be collected

as other small debts are, and one half be paid to the

informer and the other half to the county commis-

sioners of said county.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the

duty of the road supervisors and road contractors to

remove from the public roads in their respective dis-

tricts or sections in said county, all and any gates or

gate which they shall find thereon in violation of

Duty of road

the provisions of this act ; any such road supervisor

supervisors

or road contractor failing to remove any such gate

or gates shall, on conviction thereof before a justice

of peace, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and

be fined not more than twenty nor less than ten dol-

lars, one half thereof to be paid to the informer and

the other half to be paid to the County Commission-

ers of Calvert county.

SEC. 4. In order to ascertain the will of the peo-

ple in regard to the removal of gates from the public

roads of Calvert county, the legal qualified voters

of Calvert county are hereby authorized to cast a

separate ballot at the general election in November,

eighteen hundred and eighty, of which due notice

shall be given, as in the case of other ballots ; and

the tickets so voted shall be on a separate piece of

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tive

paper, with the words " for gates," or " against

gates," on the inside ; that ballots so cast shall be

counted and returned by the judges of said election

in the same way and manner as other ballots then

cast shall be. In case a majority of the votes then

cast shall be against gates, then this law shall be in

full force and virtue ; but in case a majority of said

votes in the county shall be for gates, then this law

shall be null and void.

Approved April 10, 1880.