ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

borders of Anne Arundel county, whether loose
or confined, or within three miles of any incor-
porated city or town, or of any village, within
any building or shed, upon any lot or premises
whatever, above or below ground (except in
place for blasting, or in the course of transpor-
tation), any quantity of gunpowder exceeding
one hundred pounds in weight in the aggregate,
or any dynamite or nitro glycerine, or other ex-
plosives, in any quantity whatever.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any and all
violations of this act shall be indictable offenses,

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and, upon conviction, the party or parties offend-
ing shall be fined not less than one hundred
dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, in
the discretion of the court, to be recovered as
other fines and penalties are recovered, and the
party convicted to stand committed until the
fine and costs are paid ; and if a corporation be
the offender, the president, or any member of
the board of directors, or other officer of the
corporation, may be indicted and held responsi-
ble for the payment of the penalty; and all fines
recovered under this act shall be paid to the
school commissioners of said county for the

Penalty.

benefit of the free schools of the county; pro-
vided, however, that the provisions of this act
shall not be held to apply to any magazine now
used for the storage of any of said explosives
in said county, nor to the owners, lessees or
occupiers thereof, until from and after the first
day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4, 1888.

Chapter 237.

AN ACT to authorize the Baltimore and Pow-
hatan Railway Company of Baltimore county
to use storage electricity as a motive power.

Effective.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the Baltimore and
Powhatan Railway Company of Baltimore

Use storage
electricity.