T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

section of the Code of Public Local Laws of Somer-
set county, and the ninety-fourth section of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Worcester county,
which requires that the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for said counties shall not issue license to any per-
son to sell ardent spirits at any place within the
village of Salisbury, or with in one and a half miles of
said village, without an order from the Judge of said
court, passed upon the representation of twelve or
more respectable inhabitants of said village of the
necessity and propriety of granting such license, be
and the same is hereby repealed.

CHAP. 281.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the day of its passage.

CHAPTER 281.

In force.

AN ACT for the relief of W. K. Pierce, of Har-
ford county, exempting him from the prohibition
and penalty imposed by the tenth section of the
sixty-eighth article of the Code of Public Gene-
ral Laws.

Passed March
8, 1860.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That W. K. Pierce, postmaster at
Abingdon, in Harford county, and a justice of the
peace for Harford county, be, and he is hereby re-
leased and exempted from the penalty imposed by
the tenth section of the sixty-eighth article of the
Code of Public General Laws, and from all for-
feiture incurred or to be incurred under the said
section, and he is hereby authorised to continue to
act as a justice of the peace, notwithstanding he
may still continue to hold a commission and act as
postmaster.

Exempted
from penalty.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the day of its passage.

In force.