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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it hereby further enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 2d, 1896.

CHAPTER 181.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 33 and 34 of Article 23 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title " Wicomico
County," sub-title " Delmar," as amended by Chapter 449 of
the Acts of Assembly of 1894, and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sections 33 and 34 of Article 23 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Wicomico County,"

Repeal.

sub-title " Delmar," as the same was amended by chapter 449
of the Acts of Assembly of 1894, be, and the same are hereby
repealed, and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

Male cltizans
to work on
streets.

33. All male citizens of the town of Delmar between the
ages of twenty-one and fifty years (except ministers of the
Gospel) shall work on the streets of said town not less than one
uor more than two days in each year, or furnish a substitute of
the aforesaid age to do the work or pay to the bailiff on or
before the day on which the work is to be done the sum of one
dollar for each day, for the use of the said town; and the bailiff
shall give at least five days' notice of the time and place to
meet to do said work, and shall on or before the 15th day of
May in each year post in some public place a full and complete
list of the names of all persons notified, the names of the sub-
stitutes furnished and by whom such a substitute was furnished,
and the time worked by each person or substitute, and the
amount of money paid by each person in lieu of performing
such road duty; and any person paying said money on or before
the 15th day of July in any year shall receive a discount of ten
per cent, on the same for that year.

Penalty for
refusal.

34. Any person failing to comply with the preceding sec-
tion shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be arrested
and brought before some justice of the peace for Wicomico
county, upon a warrant issued by said justice in the name of
the State of Maryland, and, upon proof of such failure, to be
find one dollar for each day so neglected and the costs of the