ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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tice may commit the party fined to the county jail for a period

not exceeding thirty days, and \he sheriff of Carroll coiinty shall

May com-

receive and confine the party so committed in the same manner as

mit.

other prisoners, and shall be entitled to the same compensation

therefor.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all laws inconsistent with, or

repugnant to the provisions of this act, he and the same are hereby

Effective.

repealed to the extent of such inconsistency, and this act shall

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.

CHAPTER 293.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Bel Air turnpike company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That section eight, of chapter four hundred and ninety-two, of

the acts of eighteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled " An act to

incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from the northern

Repealed.

terminus of the Baltimore and Harford turnpike road to the

town of Bel Air, in Harford county," be and the same is hereby

repealed, altered and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

SEC. 8. That said company shall be and they are hereby in-

vested and clothed with all the rights, privileges, immunities and

advantages which are held and possessed by the turnpike road

company, incorporated by an act passed at November session,
eighteen hundred and twelve, entitled an act to incorporate a com-

pany to make a turnpike road from the district of Columbia to

the city of Baltimore, and be entitled to the same tolls, except so

far as said last named act by the thirteenth section thereof, pro-

Rights.

hibits the Bel Air turnpike company from charging any person

or persons living on or adjacent to the said road, within three

miles from its toll-gate or turnpike, any toll for the passing of

said gate more than once in twenty-four hours, and the said turn-

pike company is hereby authorized to charge any person or per-

sons for passing through its gate, without reference to his or their

living adjacent thereto or within three miles thereof, or of said

turnpike road.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following section
be and the same is hereby added to the charter of the Bel Air turn-

Additional
section.

pike company, that is to say :

SEC. 10 1/2. Every traction engine passing through the toll-gate

of the Bel Air turnpike company shall pay for each horse power of

said engine the same toll as if each horse power represented a horse

Toll.

attached thereto; and when the tires of the wheels of traction en-