1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 53.
To be published.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of
Somerset county, be and they are hereby authorised and
required to cause the aforegoing act to be published as
soon as received, in some newspaper printed in said coun-
ty, for three successive weeks, and to pay for the same as
other county charges are paid.

Passed Jan. 30,
1840.

CHAPTER 52.

A supplement to the act of Assembly, passed December ses-
sion eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, chapter three
hundred and twenty-three, entitled an act to aid in the
construction of a State Armory and Town Hall in the
City of Baltimore, and the re-building and improve-
ment of the Hanover Market House in said City.

7th section re-

pealed.

Provisoes.

Passed Jan. 20
1840.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the seventh section of the act to which this is a sup-
plement, be and the same is hereby repealed; provided
however, that the privilege of drawing a scheme or schemes
of lotteries conferred by said act and this supplement,
shall cease so soon as by the drawing of the said schemes
the nett sum of two hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars shall have been raised; and provided, that nothing
herein contained shall be construed to extend said privi-
lege beyond the period when the existing lottery grants
shall have expired.

CHAPTER 53.
An act relating to Public Landings in Harford County.

Authority to

establish pub-
lic landings.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the commissioners of Harford county
shall have and exercise the same power to establish pub-
lic landings on the tide water canal, which they now have
or can exercise to open or lay out public roads; and that
upon the petition, in wilting, of one or more persons,
praying for a landing place, the said commissioners shall
proceed in the same manner, in all respects, that they are
now authorized to do in laying out or opening public

roads; and they shall, upon the return of the commission-