1802.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
LXXIX.

marks, both natural and artificial, and shall cry, or have them cried, at the market-house, at market-
hours, and if the owner or owners shall appear in twenty-four hours after such crying, and pay the
sum of fifty cents for each hog or goat, and twelve and one half cents for each goose, they shall be
released, but if the owner shall not pay the sum or suras aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the clerk of
the market, and he is hereby directed and required, to advertise said swine, goats or geese, to be
old at public sale; and the person impounding shall keep them thus impounded for not less than five
days, and unless the owner or owners shall appear within said five days, and pay the sum of two
dollars for each hog or goat, and twenty-five cents for each goose, they shall be sold at public ven-
due by the clerk of said market, and the money arising from said sale, after paying, every expence,
shall be paid over to the commissioners of said town, for the use of said town.

In certain cases
they may be
killed, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any swine, goats or geese, after being released as aforesaid,
shall be a second time found going at large in the said town, within half a mile of the market-house,
or shall be found trespassing within any enclosure within one mile from the said market-house, it
shall and may be lawful for the person or persons who had before impounded such swine, goats or
geese, or other person of persons in their behalf, to shoot, or otherwise kill and destroy, such
swine, goats or geese, so found going at large or trespassing as aforesaid; and if any person or per-
sons shall be sued or impleaded for any thing done by virtue of this act, the defendant may plead the
general issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence.

Section re-
pealed.

III. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the fourth section of an act passed at November ses-
sion, seventeen hundred and ninety-three, entitled, An additional supplement to an act, entitled
An act to remove the market-house at the Head of Elk, and establish the same, and for the advance-
ment and regulation of the said town, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

C H A P. LXXX.

Passed 8th of
January, 1803.

A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to repeal an act, entitled.
An act to lay out several turnpike roads in Baltimore county, and
the several supplements thereto, and for other purposes.

Preamble

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that all that part of the Reisterstown
turnpike road in Baltimore county, which lies between Samuel Owing's mills and Reister's-
town, and which at certain seasons of the year was heretofore impassable, has, in the course of last
summer, been so repaired that it can be travelled with safety; therefore,

Justices to di-
rect the super-
visor, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of
the county aforesaid shall be and are hereby authorised and required, to direct the supervisor of the
turnpike roads in said county to expend annually on the Reister's-town turnpike road, the York
turnpike road, and the Frederick turnpike road, until the same shall be made and completed the dis-
tance directed by the law to which this is a supplement, a proportion of the money levied on said
county for the support of the criminals adjudged to labour on said roads, which proportion shall be
estimated according to the distance yet to be made and completed on each of the said roads as is re-
quired by the law to which this is a supplement.

Toll, how to
be applied.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the toll collected from each road shall be applied to the making
and keeping in repair the road from which it was collected, until the said road or roads shall be com-
pleted as is required by law.

IV. AND, whereas there are two toll-gates erected on the Reisterstown Turnpike road, and the

To be expend-
ed equally, &c,

toll collected therefrom may be very considerable; therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That as soon as the
paved parts of said road shall be made and completed as is directed by the law to which this is
a supplement, that then the said levy court shall cause the said tolls to be expended equally upon the
York and Frederick turnpike roads until the said roads shall be made and completed in like manner
with the ReisterVtown turnpike road, reserving so much of said toll as the levy court shall deem
necessary to keep the said road in repair.

Road to be
surveyed, &c.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court aforesaid shall cause the Reister's-town turnpike
road to be surveyed, marked and bounded, by the surveyor of said county, or one of his deputies
and return a plot thereof to the clerk of Baltimore county, to be by him recorded among the records
of said county, beginning for the same in the centre between two stones marked I, set in the ground,
sixty-six