JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1827

provided by law shall be pursued in the collection of said
taxes.

CHAP. 114.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person or persons be-
coming the purchaser of any timber sold by virtue of this act,
shall at any time within twelve months from the day of sale,
have full power and authority to enter upon lands where such
sale has been made, and cut down and carry away the quan-

Purchaser may cut
and remove-col-
lector attend—re-
ceipt

tity of timber purchased by them as aforesaid: Provided a/-
ways, That the purchaser or purchasers as aforesaid, shall
give ten days notice to the collector, or his deputy, of the
time of his, her or their carrying away the quantity of timber
purchased by him, her or them as aforesaid, and the said col-
lector or his deputy, on the land at the time specified, and
take a receipt from the purchaser or purchasers for the amount
of said timber sold under the authority of this act, and shall
return the said receipt to the levy court of said county to
be recorded in their proceedings.

Proviso

SEC. 3., And be it enacted, That if any purchaser shall be
guilty of cutting, taking and carrying away from off said lands
a greater quantity of timber than has been purchased at any
sale made as aforesaid, for every such offence, he, she or they
shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay for every cord of wood
or hundred of fence rails so cut, taken and carried away, over
and above the quantity purchased at such sale, the sum of
twenty dollars, to be recovered before a justice of the peace,
the one half of which said sum shall be paid to the informer,
and the other half to the owner or owners of said land, and
shall also be liable to the owner or owners of said lands in
such further sum as may be awarded to him, her or them in

Penalty for taking
mine than pur-
chased

their action for damages: Provided, That where the damages
- laid by said owner or owners, shall not exceed the sum of
fifty dollars, the same shall be recovered in the same mariner
as other small debts are now by law recovered.

Proviso

CHAPTER 115.

A supplement to the act, entitled, an act for the establishment
of a school in Baltimore county, by the name of the Malen
School of said county.

Passed March 3,
1823

Be h enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the commissioners of Baltimore county be, and they are hereby
authorised and empowered to exercise all the rights, powers
and privileges which were, might or could be exercised by the
late justices of the levy court of Baltimore county, under and
by virtue of the act to which this is a supplement, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and ten, chapter one
hundred and sixteen.

Commissioners of
Baltimore county
empowered