ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTEE 512.

AN ACT to amend article eleven, of the Code of Public Local

Laws of Maryland, title "Frederick county," sub-title "Liberty,"

by adding thereto after section two hundred and ninety-seven

of said article the following sections, to be designated "Sections

two hundred and ninety-seven A, sections two hundred and

ninety-seven B, and two hundred and ninety-seven C," pro-

hibiting the sale and use of squibs, rockets, crackers and other

combustible fireworks within half a mile of the methodist

protestant church in the village of Liberty, in said county.

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

That article eleven, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title "Frederick county," sub-title "Liberty," be and the

To amend

same is hereby amended by adding thereto after section two hun-

dred and ninety-seven of said article the following sections, to be

designated "Section two hundred and ninety-seven A, section two

hundred and ninety-seven B, and section two hundred and ninety-

seven C," to read as follows :

SEC. 297 A. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to

expose for sale or to sell any squibs, rockets, crackers, or other

combustible fireworks within half a mile of the methodist pro-

Unlawful.

testant church in the village of Liberty, in Frederick county,

Maryland, and any person or persons who shall violate the pro-

visions of this section shall, on conviction before any justice of

the peace of the State of Maryland in and for said county, be

fined not less than one dollar nor more than twenty dollars and

shall pay the costs of prosecution, and in default of payment

thereof, shall be committed to jail and confined therein until said

fine and costs are paid.

SEC. 297 B. No person shall cast, throw or fire any squib, rocket,

cracker or other combustible fireworks within half a mile of the

methodist protestant church in the village of Liberty, in Fred-

Fine.

erick county, and any person or persons who shall violate the

provisions of this section shall, on conviction before any justice

of the peace in said county, be fined not less than one dollar nor

more than five dollars and shall pay the costs of prosecution, and

in default of payment thereof, shall be committed to jail and Con-

fined therein until said fine and costs are paid.

SEC. 297 C. All fines and penalties imposed and collected for
violations of the provisions of the two preceding sections shall be

To public
schools

paid to the board of county school commissioners of said county

for the use of the public schools of said county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.