JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1832.

CHAPTER 265.

CHAP. 266.

An act supplementary to an act, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, chapter eighty-seven,
entitled, An act to promote the preservation, improvement,
and increase of Shell-Fish in this State.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That an act passed at December session, eigh-
teen hundred and thirty-one, entitled, An act for the protec-
tion of Oysters in the waters of the Eastern Shore of this

For preservation

of oysters on E.S.

State; and the supplement thereto, passed at the present
session, be, and they are hereby declared to have full force
and effect, in the waters of the Western Shore of this State
except in the Chesapeake Bay.

Extended to the

W. Shore

Except

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That all laws passed here
tofore on this subject, inconsistent with or repugnant to the
provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repeal

Repeal.

ed, except so far as relates to the application of fines and
forfeitures, which may be collected under this act.

Exception.

CHAPTER 266.

An act for the relief of sundry poor persons in the several
counties therein mentioned.

Passed Mar. 24, 1833

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That the Levy courts or county commissioners as
the case may be, of Harford, Montgomery, Charles, Fre-
derick, Cecil, Queen Ann's and Prince George's counties,
be, and they are hereby severally authorised, directed and

Authority to levy

empowered, at their annual meetings, so long as they shall
see cause, at their discretion, to levy and assess on the as-
sessable property of said counties for the use of the seve-
ral persons hereinafter mentioned, any sum of money not
exceeding in the several sums annexed to their respective

All discretion.

names, viz: in Harford county, for Benjamin Gibson and
his son James T. Gibson, twenty dollars each, payable to
Thomas A. Hays or order; for Thomas T. Richardson,
thirty dollars; for Thomas Ma'gness, twenty dollars; for
Nancy Baldwin, fifteen dollars; for Polly Baldwin, fifteen
dollars; for Jane Taylor, thirty dollars; for James Clark,
twenty dollars; for William Stockdale, twenty dollars; for
Charles Robinson, twenty-five dollars; for Man' Watson,

On Harford coun-

ty