994 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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

Approved April 6, 1908.

CHAPTER 64.

AN ACT to repeal section 82A of article 20 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Somerset County,"
sub-title "Crisfield," as the same was enacted by chapter 296
of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1894, and to re-enact
the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 82A of article 20 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Somerset County," sub-title "Cris-
field," as enacted by chapter 296 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of 1894, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, so as to read as follows:

82A. The year for improving and repairing the streets, lanes,
alleys and thoroughfares of said town under this section shall
be reckoned from the first day of June, inclusive, in one year, to
the first day of June in the next year; every able-bodied male
person between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, who has
resided in said town four months shall be bound to work on said
streets, lanes, alleys and thoroughfares for one day in each and
every year as the year is herein defined, and if any person who
is liable to render such service fails to attend as directed on
notice from the chief of police, or who shall appear and fail or
refuse to work and render proper service as by the person or
persons supervising the work is required and instructed to do,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof be-
fore a justice of the peace of Somerset county, or in the Circuit
Court for Somerset county, shall be fined one dollar, and shall
be adjudged to pay fine and costs and stand committed till fine
and costs are paid; at or about the first day of January in each
year, beginning with the year 1909, the town clerk, with the
Board of Commissioners, the chief of police and other police
shall make out a list of all persons who, on the first day of the
next June will be liable to render service, and as soon as may
reasonably be convenient, this list shall be delivered to the chief
of police and he shall call on each person named therein to
pay the sum of one dollar; each person who pays the same shall
receive a receipt exempting him from service for the current
year beginning on the first day of June following. Within
five days before the first day of June the chief of police shall
make a list of the persons who have not paid the exemption