THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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with, or doing business in competition with the
line over which the dispatch is required to be sent.

Sec, 9. Be it further enacted. That the said com-
pany shall transmit all dispatches in the order in
which they are received, under a penalty of one
hundred dollars, to he recovered, with costs of suit,
by the person whose dispatch is postponed out of

Order of
transmittal,

its order; provided, however, that arrangements
may be made with the proprietors or publishers of
newspapers for the transmission, for publication, of
intelligence of general and public interest out of
its order.

Proviso.

Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That this act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

In force.

Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That the General
Assembly reserves to itself the right to alter,
amend and repeal at pleasure.

Reservation,

CHAPTER 35.

AN ACT to repeal sections one hundred and
ninety-four, one hundred and ninety-six, and
one hundred and ninety-seven, of article four, of
the Code of Public Local Laws, relating to
Docks, and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments.

Passed Feb.

8, 1866.

SECTION 1, Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That sections one hundred and
ninety-lour, one hundred and ninety-six, and one
hundred and ninety-seven, of article four, of the
Code of Public Local Laws of this State, be and
the same are hereby repealed, and re-enacted to
read as follows:

Repealed.

194. If any vessel shall be lying in Smith's
Dock, Frederick street Dock, or any other private
Dock in said city, or the entrance thereof, so as to

Penally for
obstructing
passage.