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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

persons to be found drunk or acting in a riotous or dis-

Drunkenes
in Liberty
town.

sorderly manner to the disturbance of the peace of any
citizen or citizens within the village of Liberty, or within

one mile of the Methodist Protestant Church, in said

village in Frederick County Maryland, and any person or

persons'who shall be convicted thereof before any justice of

the peace of the said district, shall be fined not less than

one dollar nor more than five dollars, and the cost of prose-

cution, and in default of the payment of said fine and costs

shall be committed to the jail of said county and confined

therein for the period of not less than ten days, nor more

than twenty days, provided, that any person or persons so

convicted shall have the right of appeal to the Circuit

Court for said county upon giving bond in a sum to be fixed

by said justice, sufficient to secure the payment of said fine

and costs, and the probable costs in said court, conditioned

that if the party appealing shall not prosecute his appeal

with effect at the next term of the Circuit Court for

said county, and also pay and satisfy said fine and costs

and the costs in said court in case the judgment shall be

affirmed, then the said bond to be and remain in full force

and virtue, otherwise to be of no effect.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all fines and penalties

Fines.

imposed and collected under this act, shall be paid to the

board of county commissioners of said county for the use of

said county.

Repeal

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts

inconsistent with this act be and the same are hereby

repealed.

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

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 379.

AN ACT authorizing and directing H. Fillmore Lankford,

clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset County, to refund

to George A. Somers, George Smith, John S. Smith and

John R. Heath each the sum of fifty dollars for illegal

fines paid by them respectively for alleged violation of

the local oyster law of Somerset County, in the State of

Maryland.

WHEREAS, Samuel F. Smith, master of vessel "Emma

Preamble,

W. Somers;" George Willing, master of vessel " Elizabeth