LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

The affidavit of the publisher or proprietor of said newspaper
as to such publication shall be evidence of the fact thereof.
SEC. 18. Those parts of the several county roads within the

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limits of said town are hereby made and declared to be public
streets or avenues of said town, and shall be from time to time
improved and repaired as, in the discretion of the Council, the
public interest may require and the resources of the town will
justify.
SEC. 19. The Commissioners of the county, the Board of
Public School Commissioners, justices of the peace, sheriffs,
constables and all other State and county officers shall have,

Public streets
and aveuues.

hold and exercise their offices in said town as heretofore, -except
as qualified by the other sections of this Act. The County
Commissioners of Montgomery county shall on or before the
first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and
on or before the first day of January in each and every year
thereafter, pay over to the town of Kensington that proportion
of the entire county levy for the repair of roads which the
total real property assessed within the limits of the town of
Kensington bears to the whole amount of assessed property in
Montgomery county, so that the town of Kensington shall
receive and disburse, for the maintenance of the streets of said
town, the amount levied for the repair of roads by said County
Commissioneis of Montgomery county upon the real property
within the corporate limits of the town of Kensington.

County offi-
cers to hold
office as
heretofore
etc

SEC. 20. This Act is hereby declared to be a public Act, and
may be used in evidence in all the courts of this State without
proof.

Public act.

SEC. 21. Neglect or non-use shall not work a forfeiture of
this charter.

Neglect, etc.

SEC. 22. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with any
of the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Repeal.

SEC. 23. This Act shall take effect from the date of its pas-
sage.
Approved March'24, 1898.

CHAPTER 79.
AN ACT to repeal Section sixty-four of Article eleven of
the Code of Public Local Laws, title " Frederick County,"
sub-title, "Circuit Court," as amended by Chapter five of the
Acts of 1890, and to re-enact the same with amendments.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section sixty-four of Article eleven of the

Effective