1842.

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 23.

Money re-
funded.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said sum of money forfeited and paid be refunded
to the said Thomas Barthelow, Joseph Cocks and James
Becraft, and that the late sheriff of Carroll county, be and he
is hereby authorized and required to refund the same, and
that the receipts of the said Barthelow, Cocks and Becraft,
shall be sufficient vouchers to the Treasurer of the Western

Proviso.

Shore in the settlement of the said Sheriff; provided that be-
fore the said Barthalow, Cocks, and Becraft, shall be enti-
tled to the benefit of this act, they shall first pay all coat
and charges that have accrued in Carroll County Court or
to the Sheriff of said county.

CHAPTER 22.

Famed Jan 28
1843.

An act relating to fines, penalties and forfeitures, and to in-
formers.

Fines — how
paid.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in all cases of fines, penalties and forfeit-
ures heretofore or hereafter imposed by the judgment of a
court of justice, or of a justice of the peace, in which a
a portion of such fine, penalty or forfeiture, is given to the
informer, if there be no informer entitled to receive the
same, then and in that case, the said portion payable to the
informer, if such there had been, shall be collected and
paid to the Treasurer of the Western Shore of the State of
Maryland, for the use of the state, in the same manner as
if no part of such fine, penalty or forfeiture, had by law
been given to an informer.

CHAPTER 23.

Passed Jan 23
1843.

An net relative to Supervisors of Roads in Frederick County.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented that great inconvenience is
frequently sustained by Farmers and Millers from the long
continued obstructions of the county roads by heavy drifts
of snow which the supervisors do not remove, and for
which no appropriation has been made by the Levy Court;
therefore,