FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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broker, coffee broker, cotton broker, sugar broker or mer-

chandise broker in the city of Baltimore.

SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the

Repeal.

provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from the date of its

Effective.

dassage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 562.

AN ACT authorizing the County Commissioners of Wor-

cester and Wicomico Counties to have the Pocomoke River

surveyed, and to levy a sum of money to defray the

expenses thereofe,

WHEREAS, the upper part of the channel of the Poco-

moke River has become obstructed by logs, trees and other

obstructions whereby the natural flow of the water is

Preamble.

impeded and causes the overflow of water on the low lands

adjacent to said river and doing much damage, and it being

advisable to remove such obstructions, therefor

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Worcester

Survey of
Pocomoke

and Wicomico Counties, be and they are hereby authorized

River

and empowered to employ a competent surveyor to survey

and report on the condition of the channel of the upper

part of the Pocomoke River above the town of Snow Hill to

the Delaware line, as to the feasibility and expense of

cleaning out the channel thereof, and for the expense of

such survey, the county commissioners of each county are

hereby authorized and empowered to levy the sum of one

hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to

defray the expenses of such survey.

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

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.