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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Ses. 1817

Exemption
from working
on roads.

2. And be it enacted, That all the inhabitants of said town of St.
Michael's, and the farms adjoining thereto, as mentioned in the
first section of this act, shall be exempt from working on any other
road or roads than those included in the district as expressed in
said section.

Passed Feb 13

Penalty for re-
fusing to deli-
ver arms.

CHAPTER 177.

An act relating to the Collection of the Public Arms.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
whenever the several agents appointed or to he appointed by the.
governor and council, in pursuance of a resolution to enforce the
collection of the public arms, shall have reason to believe, that any
person has in his or her possession any of the public arms, or has
fraudulently disposed of the same, it shall be the duty of the pro-
per agent to call on the person supposed to have said arms in pos-
session, or to have disposed thereof in manner aforesaid, to deliver
up said arms, or to account for the same, and in case of refusal in
either case, the party offending shall forfeit the sum of fifteen dol-
lars, for each and every of the public arms so held in possession,
or refused to be accounted for, to be recovered by warrant in the
name of the state, upon proof of the fact before any justice of the
peace in the proper county, under the direction of the proper agent,
who is hereby authorised and directed to receive the money, and
account for the same with the governor and council, to be by their
order deposited in the treasury of the western shore.

Passed Feb 13

Powers vested
in orphans ct.

CHAPTER 178.

A Further Supplement to an act, entitled, An act for amend-
ing and reducing into System the Laws and Regulations
concerning Last Wills and Testaments, the duties of Ex-
ecutors, Administrators and Guardians, and rights of Or-
phans and other Representatives of deceased persons.
l Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
. the orphans courts of the several counties of this state, are hereby
authorised and empowered, in all cases where letters testamentary
or of administration have been or hereafter may he. revoked, and,
new letters granted, by any of the said courts, to enforce, by at-
tachment, sequestration of property and imprisonment, the delivery
or payment over of all unadministered assets by the person whose
letters as aforesaid have been or may be revoked, to the person to
whom such new letters have been or may be granted.

Passed Feb 13

Road to be laid

out----assess-
ment.

CHAPTER 179.

; A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act to regulate the
breadth of a certain Road in Kent County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Jesse Knock, Lewis Blackistone, Edward Eubanks, William Ter-
rall and Samuel G. Ozborn, be and they are hereby appointed com-
missioners for the, purpose of carrying into effect the act to which
this is a supplement, (passed December session eighteen hundred
and fourteen,) and that they, or a majority of them, be and they are
hereby authorised and required, to survey and lay out the road
mentioned in the act to which this is a supplement, and to cause a