Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-04-07
A Adjournment Of the Legislature.

Both houses of tie Marylan Legisla ure
adjourned sine die on Monday night
shortly before midnight. No ex'ra session
of either house was called and so the
chief laws Of general application passed
during the session, condensed and CLASH
fed, are as 70 lows;
| General laws For ne~ and uniform regis
| tration OF the vsterS of the State; designating
| the general holidays TO be observed in the State
to protect the new cutoff of the Crai.hiil chan
mel from the oysierds ed gers; authorizing clerks
of courts to record receipts, e.eases aud final
| discharges, aud 10 admit copies of same in
evidence; Furnishing malicious destruction to
| libraries by Sl00 fine or three months impris-
| oument; authorizing magistrates to commit
| incorrlgible minors to ST. Nary's Industrial
| school on complaint OF parest or guardian:
desi gnating who shall take acknowled gment OF
| deeds outside OF the United States; to prevent
weighing of cattle on Sunday at States scales;
admitting proof by witnesses to handwriting
or signature, TO prove deeds, bonds, bills, &c
allowing commitments TO jailS or House OF
Correction, instead OF penitenliary, for LARGE
MES less than $50 requiring hawkerS and ped
lers TO take out licenses: 10 punish stealing OF
dogs; Furnishing disturbers of religious meet
ings to nfict corporal punishment on wife
beaters; 10 protect administrators in giving
| notice 10 creditors, so they may not he an
swerable for claims after expiration of notice:
for preservation, arran. emeDt, &c, of ancient
documents pertaining to Mars land; 10 punish
bribery of public officers; dividing the oysler
waters of the bay into seven districts; To pro-
Iect roads TO navigation by furnishing vessels
tying to buoys or anchorins in the way OF
range lights protecting orioles; providing
against the spread OF infections diseases
ibolshing House of Correction teegra pin sup
erintendent; guarding against smallpox by
allowing physicians fifty cents for yacciuatug
children OF parents or guardians unable to pay;
surveying and marking the boundary line be-
tween Maryland and Virginia; legaliZing use of
bodies of deceased pauperS aud unknown dead
for the prosecution OF the study OF anatomy; to
pay expenses of presidential electors; to i'm
prove State House ground and pave circle YES
sci; striking out The compulsory feature Of the
tobacco inspection laws; appropriatsng 81, 900
to pay cost in contested election cases; fixing
1926 pound as the standing weight of barrel ot
corn; extending the provisions Of the general
incorporation law TO turnpike and plank road
companies and passenger railways companies
outside of Baltimore; not over twelve miles
long; redemption of the Maryland defense loan;
10 abate States taxes on shares of manufacture
ing corporations to the value of the plant
when plant is exempted from local taxation:
clerks of courts to record proceedings where
lands are sold under judgment; limiting leins
of mortgages; for the inspection of milk and
preventing swiil being fed to cows; to sell
steamer Leila and purchase Two tugs for the
oysters navy; amending The General ncorpora-
ton act relating TO telegraph companies to
pay office expenses of registers of wards; amend
ing the law for prObating wills out of the
State; to punish persons aiding inmates Colored
House Of Refuge TO escape.