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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 540.

AN ACT to repeal chapter seventeen of the acts of the

General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January

session eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled an act

to add two additional sections to article twenty-seven of

the Code of Public General Laws, title "Crimes and Pun-

ishments," sub-title "Railroad Obstructing," to follow

section two hundred and thirty-one, and to be known as

sections two hundred and thirty-one A, and two hundred

and thirty-one B.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Repealed.

Maryland, That chapter seventeen of the acts of the General

Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January session eigh-

teen hundred and ninety-two, entitled an act to add two

additional sections to article twenty -seven of the Code of

Public General Laws, title "Crimes and Punishments,"

sub-title "Railroad Obstructing," to be known as sections

two hundred and thirty -one A, and two hundred and thirty-

one B, be and the same is hereby repealed.

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

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 541.

AN ACT authorizing the Board of County Commissioners

of Worcester County to appropriate the money now in

their hands and such further sum as may be collected for

the year eighteen hundred and ninety -two, from the issu-

ance of tongue license in said county, to cutting a canal

connecting the Synepuxent Bay with the Atlantic ocean

at or near a point where Green Run Inlet formerly was :

WHEREAS, the closing up of Green Run Inlet has very

Preamble.

materially affected the growing and cultivating of oysters,

&c., in Synepuxent Bay and it is deemed wise to again

connect this with the Atlantic ocean.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the Board of County Commissioners of

Open a
canal

Worcester County are authorized to appropriate such moneys

as may now be in their hands, and such further sum as may