A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

to Article nine of the Code of Public Local Laws
for Charles county, to be introduced next after sec-
tion fifty of said Article :

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The several Constables in Charles county, may
charge and receive the following fees for such
services as are herein specified : for serving
State's warrant and return, forty cents ; for
serving summonses in civil suit and return,
forty cents; for levying Fieri Facias and return,
forty cents ; for dispersing tumultuous meetings
of negroes per year, such sum as the County Com-

Constables'
fees.

missioners may allow, not exceeding sixteen dol-
lars; provided, that no allowance for such service
shall be allowed by said Commissioners, unless
they are satisfied that such service has been per-
formed.

Proviio.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect the first day of February, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-four.

In force.

CHAPTER 136.

AN ACT to amend the forty-eighth section of Ar-
ticle fifteen of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Montgomery county, by prohibiting the sale of
ardent spirits within two and a half miles of
Sandy Spring in said county.

Passed March
6, 1862.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for the
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Montgomery county,
to issue a license to any person to sell ardent spirits
at any place within two and a half miles of Sandy
Spring Meeting House, without an order in writ-
ing from the Judge of the said Circuit Court ; and
the said Judge may grant such order if satisfied
from representation in writing of respectable inhab-
itants of said neighborhood or village as the case
may.be of the necessity and propriety of granting
the same.

Granting li-
cense to sell
ardent spirits
restricted.