JOSEPH RENT5, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837

thorised to receive the said instalments, as they shall fever-
ally become due, and to demand and receive from such per-
son or persons, upon the delivery of the said certificates, a
full acquittance and discharge for, and on behalf of the state,
for the instalment for which the said certificates were issued:

CHAP, 105

Provided, always, That in case a premium of five per centum,
or exeeding five per centum, may be obtained upon any loan,
required for any instalment as aforesaid; that then, and in
that case, it shall be the duty of the said treasurer, with the
advice and consent of the Governor and Council as afore-
said, to elect the first alternative as hereinbefore provided;
And provided furthermore, and it is hereby enacted, that
upon the adoption of either alternative, a capital equal to ten
per centum, at the least, on the gross amount of each loan,
shall be made from any unappropriated money in the trea-
sury, and the same shall be invested in some safe and produc-
tive stock as aforesaid; and the interest, dividends, or profits,
arising therefrom, shall De re-invested as aforesaid, for the
eventual redemption of each of the said loans, to be negotiated
as aforesaid.

Provisos.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That any act or acts repugnant
to, or inconsistent herewith, be, and the same are hereby re-
pealed.

Repeal.

CHAPTER 106.

An act to prevent Gates on any of the public roads in Cecil
County,

Passed March 13,
1828

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That from and after the first day of August next, it
shall not be lawful for any gate to remain or to be erected on
any public road in Cecil county, without an application by
petition shall first be made to the levy court of said county,
who may at their discretion authorise gates to be erected in the
first election district only.

Gates prohibited—
excepUott.

SEC. 9, And be it enacted t That if the levy court shall here
after become satisfied that any gate or gates which they have
authorised to be erected are unnecessary, they shall give sixty
days public notice to the person or persons who have erected
the same, to remove them, after which time if said gates are
not removed by the persons erecting them, he, she or they
shall forfeit and pay a sum of twenty five dollars for every
gate not removed, and an additional fine of one dollar per day
for every day that said gate shall remain after the expiration
of the said sixty days notice.

Removal of gates;
hereafter permit-
ted.

SEC. 3, And be it enacted, That if any person or persons
shall hereafter erect any gate or gates on any of the public
roads in said county, without first obtaining permission from
the levy court as aforesaid, the person or persons so offend-
ing, shall forfeit and pay a sum of not less than twenty five dol-

Penalty for erec-
ting.