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the preceding February term thereof, and also to reconvene
during any December term of said court the grand jury sum-
moned for the preceding September term thereof, whenever and
as often in each instance, as in the judgment of said court the
public interests may be thereby subserved; and the said jurors,
when so reconvened, shall have in all respects the same power
and authority to act as they respectively had during the terms
for which they were originally summoned.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from
the first day of June, 1924.

Approved March 5, 1924.

CHAPTER 41.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 408
of Offutt's Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, Edition
of 1915, title, "Baltimore County, " sub-title, "Roads and
Streets, " as said Section was repealed and re-enacted by
Chapter 484 of the Acts of 1918, and as said Chapter 484
of the Acts of 1918 was repealed and re-enacted by Chapter
4 of the Acts of 1920, providing for the punishment of any
person destroying or removing barricades from, or causing
injury to, any public highway, road, bridge, street, avenue,
lane or alley while under construction.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 468 of Offutt's Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland. Edition of 1915, title, "Baltimore County, " sub-
title, "Roads and Streets, " as amended by Chapter 484 of the
Acts of 1918, and by Chapter 4 of the Acts of 1920, be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
so as to read as follows:

468. Any person placing any obstruction upon any of the
public highways, roads, bridges, streets, avenues, lanes or al-
leys of Baltimore County or interfering or obstructing the side
ditches or drains thereof, or encroaching upon the same with
fences or other obstructions, or in any other manner; or any
person destroying or removing barracades or signs from the
same during the course of construction, or causing injury or
damage to the same while under construction; or any person
or corporation, its agents or employees, exercising the business
of a common carrier, permitting his or its vehicles or steam