1801.

NOVEMBER, LAWS OF M A R Y L A N D.

C H A P.

LIV.

ty to lay out such road, agreeably to the prayer of such petition, or in such other manner as they
shall think most expedient, and to make return of such location with all convenient speed ; and
after such road shall be surveyed and laid out agreeably to the intentions of this act, the said court
shall direct the application for such road, and the order and proceedings thereupon, and the return
of the surveyor, to be enrolled among their records, and thereupon and thereafter such road shall
be deemed and considered to be a public road, and shall be kept up and repaired as other public
roads in the said county ; provided nevertheless, that no old road, so to be affected by this act,
shall be stopped up until the new road shall.be viewed, examined and received, by two justices of
the peace, to be appointed by the said court ; and provided also, that such new road shall be laid
out, made and completed, at the proper expence of the parties applying for the same ; and pro-
vided further, that no such application shall affect the lands of infants, persons non compotes mentis^
or persons beyond the limits of this state, until the said disabilities shall be removed.

Penalty on al-
tering, &c. any
road, &c.

XVI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or persons shall alter or change, or in any man-
ner obstruct or encroach upon, and of the said roads, or any part or parts thereof, or cut clown,
destroy or injure, any of the bridges, causeways, boundaries, marks or directions, therein or there-
on, without the licence of the justice of the levy court obtained as aforesaid, every such person
or persons, being thereof convicted in the county court, shall forfeit and pay a fine, in the dis-
cretion of the court, not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars, according to the nature and
degree of the offence.

Proviso.

XVII. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing in this act contained shall be
construed to make it the duty of the overseers of the roads aforesaid to make or repair any framed
bridge or bridges above fifteen 'feet in length, but they shall be continued to be built and repaired
In the same manner as at present ; and it is hereby declared to be the duty of every overseer afore-
said, having any such bridge or bridges within their respective limits, to clear the same of all drift
logs, or other obstructions to the free passage of the water, as often as need shall require, under
the penalty of five dollars for every neglect, to be recovered as other fines are directecd to be reco-
vered by this act.

Acts repealed
&c.

XVIII AND BE IT ENACTED, That from and after the said first Monday of April next, all and
every act and acts of assembly, and every clause and section thereof, which may respect the public
roads in the aforesaid counties, be and the same are hereby repealed ; provided nevertheless, that
nothing herein contained shall be construed or taken to affect any private act or acts of assembly
granted upon the application of any particular individual, or the act of assembly passed at Octo-
ber session, in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-three, entitled, An act for repairing
the public roads in this province, or any act or acts of assembly for the building or repairing of
any bridge or bridges that are built or maintained at the public or county charge.

Commence-
ment, &c.

XIX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall commence on the first Monday in April next
and continue and be in force for the term of two years, from that time, and until the end of the
next session of assembly that shall happen thereafter.

CHAP. LV.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1801.

A Supplement to an act, entitled, An ad to establish and incorpo-
rate a medical and chirurgical faculty or society in the state of
Maryland,

No person to
practise with-
out licence, &c,

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from and after the passage of this
act, no person who is not already a practitioner of medicine or surgery within this state,
shall be allowed to practise in either of the said branches and receive payments for the same, with
out having first obtained a licence agreeably to the original act to which this is a supplement.
under the penalty of fifty dollars for each offence, to be recovered in the county court where the
offence is committed by presentment and bill of indictment, one half for the use of the faculty,
the other half for the informer.

Not to extend
to certain per-
sons, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to ex-
tend, to prohibit any person during his actual reside-nce in any other of the United States, and
who by the laws of the state where he doth or may reside is not prohibited from practising in
either of the above branches, from practising in this state within fifteen miles from the residence
of such practitioner; provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for any person, resident as
aforesaid,