LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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si on, eighteen hundred and nine, entitled, an act to in-
corporate a company for making an artificial road from
French-town on Elk River, in Cecil county, in the state
of Maryland, to the Delaware line, in a direction to-
wards the town of New-Castle be, and the same is here-
by revived to all intents and purposes except such part

thereof as is altered and changed by this act.

Dec. Sess.
1813.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That clay shall not be
deemed a proper and convenient material for the bedding
of the said artificial road, authorised to be made by the
aforesaid recited act of assembly.

CHAPTER 83.

Bedding of
said road.

An act authorising Matthias Shafner,, late sheriff of
Washington county, to complete his collections.
Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That Matthias Shaffner be, and
he is hereby authorised and empowered to collect until
the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifteen,
all balances due him as sheriff of Washington county,
in the same manner as he could or might have done
within the time limited by law, any law to the contrary
notwithstanding.

Passed Jan.
21, 1814.

Time for col-
lection extend-
ed.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the said Matthias Shaffner, before he proceeds
to execute or distrain the property of any person or per-
sons for officers fees or public dues in virtue of this act,
to deliver to such person or persons chargeable with the
same, at least thirty days previous to levying such exe-
cution or distress, an account written in words at full
length of the officers fees or public dues demanded of
him, her or them, with an affidavit annexed, that he
hath not received any part thereof nor any thing as se-
curity or satisfaction for the same, more than credit gi-
ven to the best of his knowledge.

Distress.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said Matthias
Shaffner, before he derives any benefit from or under
this act, shall lodge his collection books in the clerk's of-
fice of Washington county, to be opened for the inspec-
tion of all persons interested in the same.

CHAPTER 84.

Collection
books.

A supplement to the act entitled, an act to prevent ex-
cessive gaming.
Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That from this time, no sum or sums
of money, or any other thing whatever, won or lost, or pre-
tended to be won or lost, by any species of gaming or
betting whatsoever, shall be demandable, or recoverable
before any court of justice, or any justice of the peace
in the state of Maryland, or by any legal process before

Passed Jan.
20, 1814.

Money won or
lost not reco-
verable.

any tribunal whatsoever in the said state; Provided,
that this law or any thing herein contained, shall not be

Proviso.