CHARLES RIDGELY, (of Hampt.) Esq. Governor.

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what reduction ought to be made, and the sum thus fixed shall ]
be the commutation of such person for the current year.
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the officers of the said
company hereafter appointed or elected for the purpose of col-
lecting tolls or receiving money, before they or any of them,
respectively enter upon the duties of his or their office, give
bond to the president managers and company of the New-Cas-
tle and French-Town Turnpike, with one or more sufficient
sureties if required, for the faithful performance of their du-
ties, in such manner and form as may be required by the presi-
dent and managers or a majority of them, or as may be pre-
scribed by their by-laws.
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or per-
sons, shall cut damage or destroy any turnpike gate, bridge,
culvert or improvements of the said company within this state,
made or which hereafter shall be made, he, she or they so offen-
ding shall and each of them shall for every such offence forfeit
and pay the sum of thirty dollars, to be sued for and recovered
with costs of suit by action of debt before any justice of the
peace, and also the damage sustained for the injury done or to
be done, may be sued for and recovered as in other cases.

Dec. Sess.
1815.

Officers to
give bond,

Damaging
Rates &c—
penalty.

CHAPTER 10.

An act to alter and change the place of holding the elections in
the third election district in Worcester county
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the judges of elections for the third election dis-
trict in Worcester county, be and they are hereby authorised
and directed to hold in future the elections in said district in
such house in the village of Berlin, as may appear to them
most convenient.
2, AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the said judges
shall have made choice of a fit and proper house in said vil-
lage for holding the elections, and shall have returned a certi-
ficate thereof under their bands and seals, or the hands and seals
of a majority of them, to the clerk of the county court in said
county to be recorded, the same shall thereafter be the place
of holding the elections for the third election district in said
county, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said judges shall
return said certificate to the clerk of Worcester county court,
on or before the fifteenth day of July next, and the said clerk
shall record the same among the records of Worcester county
court.

Passed Dec.

18, 1815.

Place of

holding the
election chang-

ed.

Return to
be trade and
recorded.

When return
to be made.

CHAPTER 11.

A supplement to an act entitled, an Act for the benefit of
the heirs of Joshua Flemming, late of Worcester County

deceased.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the orphan's court of Worcester county be,
and they are hereby authorised and empowered to appoint a
trustee to complete the sale of the real estate mentioned in
said act, and to execute a deed or deeds for that part of it here-
tofore sold by M'Kinney Porter, trustee appointed under said
act, who has since bis appointment died without completing his
trust.

Passed Dec.
18, 1815.

Deed.