SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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That if any person shall entice any minor from the care, direction,
service or employment of the father, guardian or master of such
minor, or shall induce or encourage any minor to disobey any law-
ful command of his or her father, guardian or master, or shall per-
mit any minor to resort to, enter or remain in any house, store,
shop, apartment or dwelling used or occupied by such person, after
notice from the father, guardian or master of such minor prohibit-
ing the same, such person shall for every such offence forfeit the
sum of twenty dollars, the one half thereof to the use of the state,
and the other half thereof to the use of the informer who shall
sue for such forfeiture, to be recovered before a single justice of the
peace by action of debt in the name of the state of Maryland, in
the same manner as small debts are recoverable, with the same,
right of appeal to the county court; and the father, guardian or mas-
ter of such minor, shall also be entitled to recover damages in ac-
tion of trespass upon the case against any person so offending.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

2. And be it enacted, That the state's part of the aforesaid
penalty shall be paid over by the officer collecting or receiving the
same, to the clerk of the county in which said penalty is recovered,
and by such clerk accounted for and paid over to the treasurer of
the shore on which such clerk resides.

State's part of
penalties.

CHAPTER 220.

An act relative to the road made by the United States, from Cumber-
land on the Potomac River, to or near Wheeling on the Ohio river.
Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the congress of the United States shall have full power and author-
ity to impose such reasonable tolls on so much of the road made un-
der and by virtue of an act of Congress entitled, An act to regulate
the laving out and making a road from Cumberland in the state of
Maryland, to the state of Ohio, as lies with the state of Ma-
ryland, as shall be in their judgment sufficient to keep the said
road in good and perfect repair, and to provide for the collection
of such tolls, in such manner as the congress of the United States
may in their wisdom deem right and equitable.

Passed Feb. 21,
1822.

Congress may
impose tolls.

CHAPTER 221.

A further supplement to the act entitled, An act to regulate the in-
spection of Salted Fish.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, the mayor of the city of
Baltimore shall, by and with the advice and consent of the council,
appoint and commission for the city aforesaid, a person of integrity,
skilful in the goodness, quality and well cureing of salted fish, who
shall have the same power, and have the same fees as are al-
lowed the inspector appointed by the original act to which this is a
further supplement, and shall in all respects be governed by the said
original act and the several supplements thereto; which said inspec-
tor shall hold his appointment during the pleasure of the Mayor.

Passed Feb. 22,
1822.

Mayor may
appoint inspec-
tor.

2. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the said original
act and the several supplements thereto, so far as they relate to the
appointment of a deputy inspector by the principal inspector, be and
the same are hereby repealed.

Repeal.