The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-04-22
General Laws Passed by tho legis-
lature.

lature.
Below are the general laws passed
by the Legislature just adjourned.
except few enacted in the dosing
days:
For new and uniform registration
of the voters ofthe State designating
the general holidays to be observed in
the State to protect the new cutoff
of the Craighill channel from the
oyster-dredgers; authorizing clerks
of courts to record receipts, releases
and final discharges, and to admit
copies of same in evidence punish
ing malicious destruction to libraries
by 500 fine or three months i'm
prisonment authorizing magistrates
to commit incorrigible minors to St.
Mary's Industrial School on COM
plant of parent or guardian desig-
mating who shall take acknOWledg
ment of deeds outside of the United
States to prevent weighing of cattle
on Sunday at State scales admitting
proof by witnesses to handwriting or
signature, to prove deeds, bond. bills,
&c. allowing commitments to jails
or House of Correction. instead of
penitentiary. for larcenies less than
$50; requiring hawkers and pedlers
to take out licenses to punish steal
ing of dogs Furnishing disturbers of
religious meetings to inflicl corporal
punishment on wife-beaters to pro.
tect administrators in giving notice
to creditors, SO as they may not be
answerable for claims after expira.
ton of notice; for preservation, ar
rangement, &C., of ancient documents
pertaining to Maryland to punish
bribery of public officers; dividing
the oyster waters of tie bay into
seven districts; to protect road to
navigation by furnishing vessels tying
to buoys or anchoring in the way of
range lights; protecting orioles pro-
vidingagainst the spread otinfectious
diseases; ab0lishing House of Cor
rection telegraph superintendent /;
guarding against smallpox by allow
ing physicians fifty cents for vaccina-
ting children of parents or guardians
unable to pay; surveying and mark
ing the boundary line between Ma
ryland and Virginia legalizing Use
of deceased paupers and unknown
dead for the prosecution of the study
of anatomy; to pay expenses of Pres
idential electors; to improve State
House grounds and pave circle sur.
rounding; for another oyster polit e
vessel striking out the compulsory
feature of the tobacco inspection avs;
appropriating $4,000 to pay costs in
contested election cases; fixing 325
pounds as the standard weight of a
barrel of corn extending the pro
visions of the general Incorporation
law to turnpike and plank road com.
panies and passenger railway compa-
MES outside of Baltimore, not over
twelve miles long; redemption of The
Maryland defense loan; to abate State
taxes on shares of manufacturing
corporations to the value of the plant,
when plant is exempted from local
taxation ; clerks of courts to record
proceedings where lands are sold un-
der judgment; limiting liens of
mortgages ; for the inspection of milk
and preventing swill being fed to
cows; to sell steamer Leila and pur-
chase two tugs for the oyster navy
amending the general incorporation
act relating to telegraph companies /:
to pay Office expenses of registers of
voters ;amendlng the law for probat.
ing wills out of the State ; to punish
pers0nsaiding inmates cOl0red House
Of Refuge to escape.