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	from side to side, and running back from the river
	as far as necessary, to completely fill up said dock.
	SEC. 2. And le it enacted, That this act shall take	In force.
	effect from the date of its passage.
	Approved February 14, 1878.

	CHAPTER 20.
	AN ACT to repeal an act of the General Assembly
	of Maryland of eighteen hundred and seventy-six,
	chapter sixty-two, entitled " An act to prevent the
	increase of gates upon the public roads of Calvert
	county."
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
	of Maryland, That the act of the General Assembly
	of Maryland of eighteen hundred and seventy-six,	Repealed.
	chapter sixty-two, entitled " An act to prevent the
	increase of gates on the public roads of Calvert
	county," be and the same is hereby repealed.
	Approved February 14, 1878.

	CHAPTER 81.
	AN ACT assigning the interest of the State of Ma-
	ryland in certain personal assets of Cyntice Can-
	non, a deceased intestate, born out of wedlock un-
	to Catherine M. Cannon, of Dorchester county.
	Whereas Cyntice Cannon, late of Dorchester
	county, deceased, departed this life intestate, un-
	married and without children, and without leaving
	any brother or sister, or descendant of any brother	Preamble.
	or sister, and entitled to the sum of one hundred
	and twenty-four dollars and eighteen cents, under
	the distribution made by the Orphans' Court for said
	county, of the proceeds of the sale of the lands of