1829.
LAWS
OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. 151.
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this state, shall be according to the short hundred,
so that one
thousand pieces shall be computed as one thousand staves, or
heading, as the case may be; and any inspector or dealer in
states, or heading, attempting to county, or compute, at the
rate of twelve hundred to the thousand, or at any greater rate
than one thousand pieces, to the thousand, and in that proportion
for a greater or less number, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and be held subject to indictment, and upon
conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be
adjudged to pay such fine, not exceeding one hundred dollars,
as said court shall deem meet.
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Application.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted,
That one half of the fines and
forfeitures under this act, shall be for the use of the informer,
and the other half for the use of the state.
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Passed Feb. 26, 1830.
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CHAPTER 152.
An act relating to the Public Roads in Queen Anns and
Kent
Counties.
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Overseers directed.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the supervisors of the public highways in Queen Anns and Kent
counties be, and they are hereby authorised and required to cut
an opening in any bank, erected, or to be erected, along side of
the public road in any place where the water may be likely
to lie, so that said water may be allowed to pass off; and if
any highway should become unpassable by reason of the water
lying in the same, for want of an opening being made in the
bank, the supervisor of the same, may be presented and indicted
in Queen Annes or Kent county court, as the case may be,
and in all respects dealt by, as in other cases, where said supervisor
may suffer his road to be out of repair.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted,
That this act shall not be in force
until after the first day of July next.
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Passed Feb. 26, 1830.
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CHAPTER 153.
An act to appoint an officer of the State of Maryland, to be
called the Steward to the Governor.
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Appointment authorised.
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Section 1. Be it enacted by
the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may
be lawful for the Governor of Maryland, immediately after
the passage of this act, to appoint an officer of the said state,
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