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tion in said district, on the first Monday in May next, for the pur-
pose of performing the duties imposed by this act, and the com-
missioners or commissioner so meeting may adjourn from time to
time, and from place to place, until the object of this law is
completed, and each commissioner for each days attendance,
performing the duties required by this act, shall receive one dollar
to he levied, collected and paid over as other county charges
are.
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Dec. Ses. 1824
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CHAPTER 166.
An act to repeal certain acts of Assembly therein mentioned.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all
acts heretofore passed for the encouragement of the destruction of
crows, in the several counties of this state, be, and the same are
hereby repealed.
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Passed Feb.
25, 182.5.
Crow laws
repealed.
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CHAPTER 167.
A supplement to the act entitled, An Act, authorizing gates to be kept on
the public roads in Queen Anns County.
Whereas, the original law to which this is a supplement, is par-
tial in its operations; and whereas equal privileges should be ex-
tended to all; Therefore,
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be
lawful for any person or persons in the county aforesaid, to have,
keep and erect on the public roads in the aforesaid county, any or
as many gates as he, she or they may deem necessary; subject ne-
vertheless, to all the conditions prescribed by the original law,
to which this is a supplement.
2. And be it enacted, That that part of the fourth section of the
original law, which requires the seal to the return made to the
clerk, together with the whole of the second and eighth sections of
the same law, be, and the same are hereby repealed.
3. And be it enacted, That the meaning of that part of the first
section of the original law, which says "and that part of the road
which they occupy in good order," shall extend to that part of the
road only, immediately round about said gate or gates, and not so
much of it as is enclosed between such gates.
4. And be it enacted, That after the last day of April, which
shall be in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, any person
or persons having, keening or erecting on the public roads in the
aforesaid county, any gate or gates, shall pay for each and every
gate or gates which by him, her or them shall be so had, kept or
erected, the sum of eight dollars annually, the return to be made as
is prescribed in the original law, or in default thereof, shall be li-
able to presentment in the county court of the county aforesaid;
and on conviction shall be fined by said court, in the sum of eight
dollars and no more, to go toward defraying the expences of said
county, as specified by the act to which this is a supplement.
5. And be it enacted, That all and every part or parts of the ori-
ginal law inconsistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this
act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.
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Passed Feb.
25, 1825.
Preamble.
Gates au-
thorised.
Parts of for-
mer acts re-
pealed.
Clause ex-
plained.
Tax on gates
after 1835.
Repealing
clause.
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