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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 172.
An act authorising and requiring the erection of indexes or finger boards
in the several counties therein mentioned. |
149
Dec. Ses. 1825.
Passed March
6, 1826. |
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland,
That it shall be the duty of the levy courts of Frederick, Washington
and Allegany counties, to direct the supervisors of the
public roads to cause to be erected and kept up at the expense
of the counties at all public cross roads, and where public roads
fork; indexes or finger boards pointing to the nearest town, mill,
or other public place where said roads lead, with the names of
said places, and the distances thereto, legibly inscribed thereon. |
Levy court
directed to
cause Indexes
to be erected. |
2. And be it enacted, That if any person
or persons shall
wantonly injure, deface, or pull down, any such index or indexes,
finger board or finger boards, such person or persons, so
offending, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five dollars
for every offence, to be recovered by warrant before a justice
of the peace, in the same manner as other small debts are
recoverable, one half to go to the informer, and the other half
to the use of the counties. |
Penalty
for injuring. |
3. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid
supervisors shall
return to the levy courts of said counties a correct account, on
oath, of the sums of money expended in the erection and keeping
up such indexes; and it shall be the duty of the said levy
courts, to levy such sum or sums of money on the assessable
property of said counties, and collected as other county taxes
are collected. |
Account on
oath—levy. |
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CHAPTER 173.
An act to incorporate the Seamen's Union Bethel Society of Baltimore. |
Pas'd March
6, 1826. |
WHEREAS, several individuals in the city of Baltimore,
from
an earnest desire to advance the temporal and eternal interest
of seamen, have united themselves into a society, the object of
which, as expressed in the second article of the constitution
they have adopted, is to promote religious instruction among
the seamen of the port of Baltimore, by having public worship
celebrated each returning Lord's day, in some place adapted to
their accommodation, either on shipboard or on shore; to arrange
and conduct prayer meetings among seamen, and to distribute
to them bibles, tracts and other religious works: And
whereas the managers of the said society having it in contemplation
to erect a seamens church on Fell's Point, and conceiving
that their views in that and other respects, would be essentially
promoted could they obtain an act of incorporation, which
they have respectively solicited; and this General Assembly,
deeming the object of the said society as meretorious, and calculated
to effect the most beneficial results: Therefore, |
Preamble. |
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