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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
to raise any swine in styes, pens or other close enclosures within
the limits of Port Tobacco in Charles county, or to keep any
swine in such styes, pens or other close enclosures between the
first of April and the first day of December thereafter, in each
and every year, and it shall be the duty of the constable of said
town, upon the information of any of the inhabitants thereof, or
upon his own knowledge, that any person has any swine confined
in any stye, pen or other close enclosure within the limits of
said Town, or that any inhabitant of said town has any offensive
matter about his, her or their stables, premises or inclosures,
likely to produce disease, or endanger the health of the inhabitants
of the said Town, it shall be the duty of said constable to
give notice in writing, to such person, so violating the provisions
of this act, to remove such pen or stye or other nuisance
within ten days thereafter, and upon failure to remove such pen,
stye, or other nuisance as required, the person so offending,
shall forfeit and pay for every such offence, the sum of ten dollars,
to be recovered upon conviction before a single justice of
the peace, upon information of said constable, or any other inhabitant
of said town, one half of which fine to go to the informer
and the balance to the county. |
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Dec. Ses. 1825. |
2. And be it enacted, That if the town
constable shall neglect
to perform the duties required of him by this act, he shall forfeit
and pay the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered upon information
before a single magistrate upon the oath or affirmation
of any credible witness, one half of which fine shall go to the
county, and the other half to the informer. |
Constable
liable for neglect
of duty. |
3. And be it enacted, That so much
of the act passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, chapter ninety,
as relates to prevent swine from going at large in Port Tobacco,
be and the same is hereby repealed; Provided, That every
such swine which is suffered to go at large, in the said town,
shall first have an iron ring inserted in the nose of the said
swine. |
Act repealed.
Proviso. |
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CHAPTER 216.
An act relating to the collectors of the Public Revenue. |
Passed March
9, 1826. |
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland,
That the time limited by law for the payment into the treasury
of the revenue for the support of government, ordered to be
levied by the act of December session, eighteen hundred and
twenty-four, chapter one hundred and fifty-nine, be, and the
same is hereby extended to the first day of May next. |
Time extended. |
2. And be it enacted, That if the several
collectors of the public
revenue appointed under the provisions of the act aforesaid,
shall pay into the treasury of the Western or Eastern Shore, |
Inducement
for prompt
payment. |
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