ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 173.

AN ACT to add certain sections to article ... of the

Code of Public Local Laws, entitled " Garrett

county," as enacted by the act of eighteen hundred

and seventy-eight, chapter one hundred and eight,

said sections to follow section thirty-seven, and to

be numbered thirty-seven A, thirty-seven B and

thirty-seven C, sub title " Fences."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the following sections be and are

hereby added to article ... of the Code of Public

Local Laws, entitled " Garrett county," as enacted by

Sections added.

the act of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, chapter

one hundred and eight, said sections to follow section

thirty-seven, and to be numbered thirty-seven A,

thirty-seven B and thirty-seven C.

37A. It shall not he lawful for any person or per-

sons to have, erect, maintain or permit to stand upon

his property, any fence or other obstruction along the

side of any public road in said county, so built as to

Fences, &c..

cause snow to drift upon said road; and every fence so

how unlawful.

erected along any such public road, in places where

snow is liable to drift, shall be built in such manner

as to admit of the free passage of snow through, the

same.

37B. Any person violating the provisions of the

foregoing section shall be fined not exceeding ten dol-

lars nor less than five dollars for every offence, and

Penalty for

each day that such fence or other obstruction shall be

violation.

maintained or permitted to remain shall constitute a

separate offence; such fine shall be collected as pro-

vided in section seven of this article.

37C. In all cases where any fence is now in exist-

ence along any public road in said county which

causes snow to drift upon such road, the county com-

missioners are authorized to co-operate with the owner

of such fence to replace the same by a wire fence, and

Commissioners
authorized to

only where absolutely necessary to prevent drifting of

co-operate.

snow, and by so many strands of wire as will be neces-

sary for the free passage of snow through the same ;

and in all cases the commissioners are authorized to

purchase wire for the making of such fences, provided