1820.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 123.

Certified copies
to be received as
evidence.

the money thus assessed, when collected, to be paid to the order
or orders of the judges of said orphans court.

3. And be it enacted. That certified copies from such records
when made out, shall be received as evidence in any court of law
or equity.

Passed Feb. 9, 1821.

Persons who shall
not be considered
retailers within
the meaning of

original act.

CHAP. CXXIV.
A Supplement to the act, entitled. An act laying Duties on Licenses to Retail-
ers of Dry Goods, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
selling or bartering of any saddles, saddlery, shoes, boots or
hats, by any mechanic residing in this state, and accustomed to
manufacture any of the articles above mentioned, or the selling
or bartering of any salt, salted fish, or plaister of paris, by any
person whatsoever, shall not be deemed or taken to make such
mechanic, or other person, a hawker and pedlar, or a retail deal-
er in merchandize, within the meaning of the acts of assembly
requiring hawkers and pedlars and retailers as aforesaid, to ob-
tain a licence for carrying on such trade or business, provided that
no mechanic shall be deemed a resident of this state, within the
meaning of this law, unless he shall have actually resided therein
for the space of twelve months before the selling or bartering
above mentioned.

Passed Feb. 9, 1821.

Preamble.

CHAP. CXXV.

An Act respecting an application for a Road in Baltimore County Court by
Thomas Owings

WHEREAS it is stated to this general assembly, by the memo-
rial of Thomas H. Gist, of Baltimore county, that sundry peti-
tions have heretofore been, presented to the general assembly, by
a certain Thomas Owings of Baltimore county, praying for a
road from his mill through the lands now occupied by said Tho-
mas H. Gist, and that the said Thomas Owings has heretofore
applied at five different sessions of the general assembly of this
state for said road, which said applications have been rejected,
some of them after a full hearing of the parties: And whereas
it is further stated as aforesaid, that a decision has heretofore
been pronounced by Baltimore county court, at September term
seventeen hundred and ninety-four, upon the petition of the said
Thomas Owings, praying for a road through the lands now oc-
cupied by the said Thomas H. Gist, and it is just, that if the said
facts should be found to be true, the said Thomas H. Gist should
be relieved from any further application concerning the said road;
Therefore,

Decision of court
to be conclusive
evidence that a

certain road ought
not to be opened.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the decision so as aforesaid made by Baltimore county court,
upon the petition of the said Thomas Owings, shall be conclusive
evidence that the said road ought not to be opened, either as a
public or private road, provided it shall appear to Baltimore
county court, by such summary inquiry as it shall deem proper,
that the road which was the subject matter of the said former de-
cision in that court, and of the several petitions to the general as-
sembly above mentioned, is or shall be, substantially the same road
which is or shall be applied for by or on behalf of Baltimore
county, or of any person or persons whatever.