JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1802

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the commissioners of the town of
Havre-de-Grace shall have full power and authority to enact and. pass all such by-laws and ordi-
hances as are necessary to prevent and remove nuisances; to provide for the sweeping of chimnies ;
to prevent the storage of gunpowder in such quantities as may endanger the safety of said town; to
provide for improving and amending the streets, lanes and alleys; and to make such other useful and
necessary regulations as may appear to them proper and right for the general welfare of the inhabi-
tants of said town; and to cause a just and fair assessment and valuation of all the real and personal
property within the limits of said town, (unimproved lots of ground and the working tools of
mechanics only excepted to be made and returned to the commissioners annually, and to impose
and levy on the property, so directed to be assessed and valued, such sum or sums of money, in just
and fair proportions, according to valuations aforesaid, as the commissioners shall deem necessary
for the benefit of said town, provided that the whole sum or sums of money, so levied as aforesaid,
shall not exceed in any one year the sum of one hundred dollars; to make such ordinances and regu-
lations as shall be necessary for collecting annually the sum or sums levied as aforesaid; to impose
such fines, penalties and forfeitures, for a breach of any of the by-laws or ordinances, as they may
think proper, not exceeding ten dollars for any one offence; to pass all ordinances necessary to give
effect and operation to all the powers vested in the commissioners under the authority of this or any
other act heretofore made; provided, that the by-laws or ordinances of the said commissioners, ex-
cept those relating to nuisances, shall be in no wise obligatory upon the persons of nonresidents of
the said town, being citizens of this state.

C H A P

LXXXIII,
Commissioners
powers, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all fin.es, penalties and forfeitures, which may be incurred by
any person or persons in virtue of this act, and all other monies arising in virtue of this or any
former a el passed on this subject, shall be recovered by, and in the name of, the commissioners of
Havre-de-Grace, before a single magistrate, as in cases of small debts, and the said penalties, fines
and forfeitures, and all other monies arising under this or any other act relating to this subject, shall
be appropriated by the said commissioners to the use and benefit of the said town, and at such times
as the commissioners shall think proper.

C, H A P. L.XXXIV.

How fines, &c
are to be re-
covered, &c.

An ACT concerning the Patowmack company.

WHEREAS the object contemplated by the act of assembly tor establishing a company for open-
ing and extending the navigation of the river Patowmack, has been accomplished.

Passed 8th of
January, 1803.
Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the proprietors of shares in the
said Patowmack company, their heirs and assigns, shall and may demand, take and receive toils, at
the several and respective places heretofore fixed by law for the payment and receipt thereof, to wit,
at or near the mouth of Conococheague, Hooke's falls, the Great falls, and the Little falls, accord-
ing, to the rates heretofore established; and all and every or the rights, interests, privileges and
immunities, heretofore granted to, or vested in, the said proprietors and Patowmack company, are
hereby confirmee! and established to them, their heirs, assigns and successors.

Places for re-
ceiving tells,
&c.

III. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the locks creeled as the Great falls of the breadth of
twelve feet, shall be as available in law, and shall be deemed and ta of the same force and virtue,
as if the same were of the breadth of fourteen feet; and hereafter when new locks are erected, or
old ones repaired, they shall be erected and repaired of such breadth and length, and of such mate-
rials, as a general meeting of the proprietors shall deem most conduct to the public Interest and
convenience; provided, that no lock shall be less than eighty feet in length, and twelve feet in
breadth.

CHAP. LXXXV.

Locks erected
available, &c.

A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry
insolvent debtors, passed at November session, eighteen hundred
and one.

Passed 8th of
January, 1803

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the chancellor be and he is hereby au-
thorised and empowered, forthwith to discharge James Ray, an insolvent debtor, inctuded in
the original act to which this is a supplement, from the custody of the sheriff of Anne-Arundel
county, provided the said James Ray shall, previous to such discharge, enter into bond, to such
person and in such penalty as the chancellor shall direct, conditioned for the appearance of the said
James

Chancellor to
discharge J.
Ray, &c.