LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1844.

of the taxes demanded of him, her, or them, and an affi-
davit thereto annexed, that he hath not directly or indi-
rectly received any part thereof, or any thing in security
or satisfaction for the same, more than the credits given
to the best of his knowledge.

CHAP. 171,

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts inconsistent
with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Repealed.

CHAPTER 170.

An act to authorise the County Commissioners of Worches-
ter County, to act in a case therein mentioned.

Passed March
3, 1845.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly,
that Powell Patey, of Worcester county, is bound by law
to keep up a certain mill clam called Prideax dam, which
(it is alledged) ought to be kept up by the public—There-

Preamble.

fore,
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the county commissioners of Worcester county, be
and they are hereby authorised, if upon a consideration of
all the facts they shall be of opinion that it is just and ex-
pedient to do so, to relieve said Patey, from keeping up
said dam, and to place the same upon the county to be
kept up by the public, as the public roads are kept up in
said county.

Commission-
ers authorised
to act.

CHAPTER 171.

An act to provide for the proper location of the first Toll
Gate on the Falls Turnpike. Road.

Passed Feb.
27, 1845.

WHEREAS, it is provided by the act of the General As-
sembly, passed at November session, eighteen hundred and
five, chapter forty-eight, section three, that the Falls
Turnpike company, should not erect any toll gate within
one mile from the then limits of the city of Baltimore; AND

WHEREAS, since the passage of said act, the limits of the
said city of Baltimore by its northern boundary line, have
been extended to within a few hundred yards of the first
turnpike gate originally erected on said road; AND

WHEREAS, a large portion of the original bed of said road
is now a part of Cathedral street, paved and improved at
the expense of the private owners of property on said
street, and said improvements are rapidly extending to the
site of said gate.

Preamble.