1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 311.

said town, and may lay out and widen streets in
said town, but shall not extend the width of any
street to more than forty feet, and all damages done
to the citizens of said town, by the opening and
extension of streets, shall be paid by the corpora-
tion, and it shall not be lawful for the clerk of the
Circuit court for Dorchester county to grant any ap-
plicant or applicants a license to retail any spiritu-
ous, distilled or malt liquors within the limits of
said town, unless the applicant or applicants shall
exhibit to said clerk the recommendation of a ma-
jority of the commissioners of said town, obtained
from them in town meeting assembled, and attested
by their clerk, and if any such license is granted
without said recommendation, and any person shall
retail said liquors in virtue thereof, he, she or they
shall be subject to the same penalties as are now
imposed by law for selling without license.

Public lot.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That a public lot may
be laid out in said town, or its vicinity, for the use
of said town, by John B. Leckie, Dr. James T. Ja-
cobs and John Dean, or a majority of them, and
they shall have the same powers and duties con-
ferred in the act of the General Assembly of eigh-
teen hundred and forty-nine, chapter three hundred
and twenty-two, or if already laid out as therein
directed, the said lot is vested in said corporation.

Fines — how
recovered.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That all fines and
forfeitures, imposed by the ordinances of said cor-
poration, shall be recoverable before any justice of
the peace as small debts are recoverable.

Repealed.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That section one hun-
dred and thirty-four, section one hundred and thir-
ty-seven, section one hundred and forty-one, section
one hundred and forty-two and section one hun-
dred and forty-six of article ten, of the code of public
local law is hereby repealed, and the aforegoing
sections, one, two, three, four, five and six, be sub-
stituted in lieu thereof.

In force.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the day of its passage.