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or other engines or cars to obstruct any crossing for a longer
period than ten minutes at any one time shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and shall be liable to arrest and prosecution at
the instance of any road official, his or their representatives,
or at the instance of any taxpayer of the county, and upon
conviction by any justice of the peace exercising criminal
jurisdiction in Baltimore County shall be fined in any amount
not less than one dollar nor more than fifty dollars for each
offense; any person arrested under this section shall have the
right to elect that his case be sent to the Circuit Court for
trial. All fines collected under this section shall be paid into
the General Road and Bridge Fund of the county.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 42.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Mayor and Common
Council of Union Bridge, in Carroll County, to issue and
sell bonds of the said town to an amount not exceeding seven
thousand ($7, 000. 00) dollars, for the purpose of paying off
the bonds of the said town in the amount of three thousand
($3, 000. 00) dollars which will become due in the year
1925, and for the purpose of general improvements in the
said town and to provide for a levy and collection of town
taxes to pay the interest and principal of said bonds.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and Common Council of Union Bridge,
in Carroll County, be and they are hereby authorized and
empowered to borrow on the faith and credit of the said town
of Union Bridge the sum of seven thousand ($7, 000. 00) dol-
lars or so much thereof, in addition to the three thousand
($3, 000. 00) dollars for refunding the bonds of the said town
which will become due in the year 1925, as in their judgment
shall be necessary for general improvements in the said town,
and the Mayor and Common Council are hereby authorized
and empowered to issue bonds therefor.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the bonds or any
number thereof hereby authorized shall be issued at such time
or times and in such denomination or denominations as the
Mayor and Common Council shall determine, provided that it
shall be the duty of the Mayor and Common Council, and