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Dec. Ses. 1825. |
JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
it expedient to contribute towards the repairing such roads in
said county. |
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Passed Feb.
23, 1826. |
CHAPTER 127.
A further supplement to an act, entitled, an act relating to salted
fish,
brought to the City of Baltimore, passed at December
session eighteen
hundred and twenty-three, chapter two hundred and
three. |
Penalty for
constructing
landing, &c. |
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland,
That if any person or persons in said city, shall attempt to prevent
or obstruct the landing, inspection and storage of salted
fish in said city, between the first day of November and the first
day of June in each and every year, on any public wharf or
place where salted provisions are usually landed and stored, he
or they so offending, shall forfeit and pay for each and every offence,
the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered in the
name of the state, before a justice of the peace as other small
debts are recovered, one half of which shall be appropriated to
the informer and the other half to the use of the state, any act
of assembly, or of the mayor and city council of Baltimore to
the contrary notwithstanding. |
City wharfs
declared public. |
2. And be it enacted and declared, That
all wharves and places of
landing in the city of Baltimore, which are or may be owned by the
mayor and city council of Baltimore, shall be and they are
hereby declared to be public wharves within the intent and
meaning of this act, and of the original act to which this is a
further supplement, and of the other supplements thereto. |
Respecting
wharfage. |
3. And be it enacted, That it shall
not be lawful for the corporation
of the city of Baltimore to establish any higher rate of
wharfage for barrels of salted fish, than for barrels containing
any other salted provisions. |
Informer a
competent
witness. |
4. And be it enacted, That in all actions,
civil or criminal for
the recovery of the penalty mentioned in this act, the informer
shall be and he is hereby declared to be a competent witness. |
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Passed Feb.
28, 1826. |
CHAPTER 128.
An act for the relief of the representatives of Walter Smith, late register
of Wills in Calvert County. |
Collection of
fees. |
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
Jeremiah M. Baden, register of wills in Calvert county, shall
be and he is hereby authorized and directed to place in the
hands of the sheriff of said county, at any time before the first
day of April next for collection, accounts of all fees of office,
due to the estate of Walter Smith late register of wills in the
said county, and that it shall be the duty of the said sheriff, and |
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