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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of their present term of office, under the super-
vision and direction of said commissioners or
their attorney, for which they shall allow him
one cent for every ten words or figures so copied
or recorded, and fifty cents for each plat ; and
that said commissioners be and they are hereby
authorized to levy upon the assessable property
of said county a sum sufficient to pay for said
work in instalments as the work progresses, on
the approval of said work and presentation of
true, correct and itemized statements of said
work, certified to under oath by said employe.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That said record of

Record to be
kept.

such proceedings relating to the opening, alter-
ing, condemning and locating of said public
roads and landings, and building or purchasing
of joint public bridges, shall hereafter be con-
tinuously kept up by said county commissioners
as part of the general work of said office, to be
done by the clerk authorized by law to be em-
ployed by them.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That a certified copy

Legal evi-
dence.

of the proceedings relating to the opening, alter-
ing, condemning and locating of any public road
or public landings, and the purchase or building
of any joint public bridge taken or made from
said record, as hereinbefore certified to by the
clerk of said county commissioners under the
seal of said office, shall be legal evidence.

Approved April 4, 1888.

Chapter 362.

AN ACT to add a new section to article thirty of
the Code of Public General Laws, title "Crimes
and Punishments," sub-title "Rivers," to come
in after section one hundred and seventy-one.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-

Additional
section.

sembly of Maryland, That it shall not be law-
ful for any person to dig, dredge, take and
carry away any sand, gravel or other material
from the bed of the Potomac river, from its