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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 485.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact chapter one hundred and fifty-

two, of the acts passed at the January session eighteen hundred

and seventy-eight, entitled an act to repeal chapter four hun-

dred and twenty-nine, of the acts passed at January session

eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled an act to incorpor-

ate a company to construct a turnpike road from Hagerstown,

in Washington county, to the town of Sharpsburg, passed at the

January session eighteen hundred and fifty-three, chapter one

hundred and twenty-nine, and to re-enact the said section with

amendments.

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

That chapter one hundred and fifty-two, of the acts of eighteen

Repeal.

hundred and seventy-eight, of the General Assembly of Maryland,

passed at the January session of the General Assembly of Mary-

land in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, be and the

same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Hag-

erstown and Sharpsburg turnpike company to continue upon then-

Toll-gate.

road, the toll-gate now erected on said road north of the point

where the road known as the "Manor road " joins with the road

of the Hagerstown and Sharpsburg turnpike company, and they

shall not re-establish any other toll-gate upon- said road north of

the point of junction of the said turnpike road with the road

known as the " College road."

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Hagerstown and Sharps-

burg turnpike company shall not charge at the said toll-gate now

Toll.

erected north of said manor road more than one-tenth of the

toll authorized by original act of incorporation of said company

upon all travel through said toll-gate which turns upon the said

manor road or comes from the said manor road, except that for

any such travel passing through said toll-gate, but once on any

day it shall be lawful for said turnpike company to charge at

least one cent.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage, and the legislature hereby reserves to itself

the right to alter, amend, annul or repeal this act at its pleasure.

Approved April 8, 1890.