ORPHANS' COURT. 1868, c. 253 enacts that in all cases of guardianship and wardship now pending in either of the orphaus' courts for Somerset and Worcester counties, which may have two or more years to run before the expiration of said guardianship or wardship on application to the said orphans' court for the county where such guardianship was entered, and on payment of all fees due in said orphans' court and to the register of wills of said county, said guardian may take a certificate of all his proceedings had in said court, including all accounts which he may have passed against his ward or wards, together with a full account of all his proceedings had in said court, the same to filed in the office of the register of wills for Wicomico county where the said guardian and ward or wards respectfully reside. That where any lands belonging to the estate of a deceased person lying within the limits of Wicomico county and where the administrator resides, and when all the personal effects of said deceased person have been duly administered in either of the counties of Somerset or Worcester, and the said administrator shall produce a certificate of such administration to the orphans' court of Wicomico county, and the said orphans' court for Wicomico county shall be satisfied that it will be to the advantage of all concerned to have said real estate sold and the proceeds invested for the benefit of the heirs of said deceased, they may order the same to be sold by said administrator and the proceeds invested as now provided by law. In force and approved March 30, 1868. 1868, c. 277. Duty of road supervisors. Proviso. Ibid. s. 2. County surveyor. ROADS. 1868, c. 277 enacts the following: 17. It shall be the duty of the supervisors of the public roads in Wicomico county to examine all public roads in their respective road districts, and if any of said roads are found to be less than thirty feet wide, and if the said supervisor finds that at any point said road cannot be improved or repaired without widening the same he shall have full power to remove fences, fill up and remove ditches, cut down and remove trees, or any other obstructions so that the said road may be rendered passable and convenient; provided such widening shall not exceed thirty feet. 18. If any person or persons shall feel aggrieved at the action of the supervisor in the performance of his duty under this act in removing his, her or their fence or other obstruction, he, she or they may call in the county surveyor for the purpose of ascertaining where the centre of said road is, so as to know where the fifteen feet from the said centre of the said road will run and be located, and if the said surveyor shall decide in favor of the location made by the supervisor then the party or parties appealing to said surveyor shall pay the expenses of said survey; but if the said surveyor shall decide that the location made by said supervisor is not correct and that it is an injury to said party or parties so appealing, then the county commissioners shall pay the said surveyor four dollars for each day he may be employed in surveying such road or roads; but said surveyor shall not charge for any survey made on any road unless he shall have been called in on an appeal from the action of some road supervisor of the public roads in said county. In force and approved March 30, 1868. RAIL ROADS. By the act of 1868, c. 245 the Wicomico and Nanticoke rail road company is incorporated, and the act of 1868, c. 266 is supplemental to the act passed at January session, 1864, c. 116 entitled, an act to revive and extend an act to incorporate the Wicomico and Pocomoke rail road company with amendment, passed at December session, 1847. SALISBURY. 1868, c. 146 entitled an act to add sections to the act of 1867, c. 377, [Sup. 640,] to be embraced in Art. XXII of the Supplemental Code of Public Local Laws for Wicomico county, sub-title Salisbury, enacts the following: Power of com missioners. 19. The said town commissioners of the town of 1868, c. 146. Salisbury, or a majority of them, shall have full power and anthority to straighten and widen old streets, and to open, lay out and grade new ones, whenever in their judgment the same may be necessary, or that the public convenience and improvement may require it, and they or a majority of them shall have full power to provide for the payment of damages and expenses incurred by opening, widening or straightening the streets as aforesaid, by levying and assessing the same generally upon Before whom commission the whole of the assessable property of said town, or upon the property of persons benefitted thereby. 20. The commissioners who shall hereafter be ers to qualify. elected, as provided for in the third section of said article, shall qualify before the clerk of the circuit court for Wicomico county, and not as provided for in the fourth section of said article. Bailiffs. 21. The bailiffs appointed by said commissioners shall qualify before the clerk of the circuit court of said county, whose bond shall be approved by the commissioners of Wicomico county, and not before a justice of the peace and the county commissioners, as provided for in section seven of said article. In force and approved March 20, 1868. 1868, c. 254. Commissioner county. SLAVE STATISTICS. 1868, c. 254 enacts the following: 22. There shall be a commissioner of slave statistics for Wicomico for Wicomico county, who shall be appointed and qualified as prescribed by the act passed at the January session, 1867, c. 189, [Sup. 111,] and be subject to all the provisions of that act except as to the time of appointment. In force and approved March 30, 1868. See act of 1868, c. 385, under Public General Laws, Art, XXXVII, Evidence. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES. 55. Number of. OYSTERS. 90. Non-residents not to take, &c., oysters, terrapins, clams, &c.: penalty: proviso. 91. Disturbing terrapins: penalty. 92. Converting oysters into lime: penalty. 93. Proceedings before justice: recognizance: commitment. 94. Officer to seize boat, &c. 95. Judgment. 96. Fee of officer. 97. Moiety of fine to informer. 98. Affidavit: warrant of arrest. 99. Taking, &c., oysters: penalty. PARTRIDGES. 100. When not lawful to trap or shoot, &c. 127. Fees, &c. SHERIFF. SNOW HILL. 128. Incorporated. 129. Limits of town. 130. Election of commissioners. 131. Judges of elections: returns: certi ficates of election. 132. Oath of judges. 133. Vacancy among commissioners. 134. Oath of commissioners: meetings of board. 135. President. 136. Clerk and bailiff. 137. Nuisances, &c., streets. 138. Firing guns, &c.: tumultuous meet ings. 139. Dogs. 140. Fines, penalties and forfeitures. 141. Public grounds: pump. 142. Cattle, &c., running at large. 143. Hogs and geese: impounding. 145. Assessors. 146. Appeal from assessment. 147. Treasurer of corporation: accounts: bond. Sub-Sec. 1. Treasurer's compensation. Sub-Sec. 3. Arrests. Sub-Sec. 4. Lamp posts. Sub-Sec. 5. By laws and ordinances: penalties, fines and forfeitures. Sub-Sec. 6. Fire engine. Sub-Sec. 7. Tax on cows and calves running at large. Sub-Sec. 8. Limits of town. Sub-Sec. 9. Ordinances, &c., to be published. BERLIN. 1868, c. 424 enacts the following: SEC. 1. The citizens of the town of Berlin, in Wor-1868. c. 424, s. 1. cester county, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the Commissioners of Berlin, and by Incorparated. Ibid. s. 2. Limits of town. Ibid. s. 3. Election of commission ers. Ibid. s. 4. Judges of election. that name may have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, and have and use a common scal. 2. The limits of said town shall begin at the southeast corner of the Buckingham cemetery, and shall run from thence by and with the south side of the Newport road via the African Church, to the northwest corner of the Major Hill lot, and thence to the intersection of the Sinepuxent road with Hudson's Branch, thence to the south side of the bridge, over Nelson's Branch, on the Taylorsville road, thence to the south side of the bridge at the intersection of the St. Martin's and Whaleyville roads, thence to L. P. Franklin's gate on the Libertytown road, thence to the southwest corner of H. D. Yinglis' lot on the road running from the Buckingham cemetery to John E. H. Marshall's gate, thence in an easterly course by and with said road and the south line of said cemetery to the beginning; the commissioners hereafter to be elected may make such alterations in said limits as they may deem advisable, and cause the same to be surveyed and the boundaries thereof to be established, and the record thereof to be filed amongst the records of the corporation. 3. The white male citizens of said town, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, having resided therein for the space of six months next preceding the first Monday in May next, may on that day at the town hall in said town, and on the first Monday in May in each and every year thereafter, be authorized to elect five commissioners for said town, who shall have resided within the limits of the same for at least two years next preceding the election. 4. The justices of the peace in Berlin election district are hereby empowered to act as judges of the first election for said commissioners, who shall keep the polls open from two o'clock, P. M., until five o'clock, P. M., and shall conduct the said election in the same manner as an election for delegates to the general assembly, (except that registration shall not be deemed a necessary qualification for voters,) and as far |