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ceased, late of said county, certain taxes erroneously paid
by them."
Endorsed: "Read the third time and passed by yeas and
nays."
Also, returned,
Senate bill No. 120, entitled "An Act to add certain
sections to chapter 25, of the Acts of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, passed at the January session, 1898,
known as the ‘Amended Charter of the Town of Oak-
land,' granting to the Mayor and Town Council of Oak-
land, additional powers to operate an electric light plant,
or to rontract for the operation of the same, and to grant
franchises to corporations or individuals within the cor-
porate limits of the town of Oakland, and to be known
as ‘Sections 196 A, 196 B and 196 0."
Endorsed: "Read the third time and passed by yeas
and nays."
Also returned,
Senate bill entitled "An Act to declare the sanction
and consent of the General Assembly of Maryland, to the
several deeds made by Samuel Appold and wife, Gabriel
D. Clark and wife, and William Kammerer. to the trus-
tees of St. Mark's English Evangelical Lutheran Church
of Baltimore, a corporation duly incorporated under the
laws of the State of Maryland, and also to the acquisition
hereafter by the said grantee of the fee-simple title to
any lot of ground mentioned in said deeds in whiich it
has thereby acquired less than a fee-simple, and to the
selling, mortgaging, leasing or other disposttion thereof."
Endorsed: "Read the third time and passed by yeas
and nays."
Also returned,
Senate bill entitled "An Act to declare the sanction of
the General Assembly of Maryland, to a certain gift and
bequest to ‘The Redemptorists,' a body corporate."
Endorsed: "Read the third time and passed by yeas and
nays."
Also, returned,
Senate bill entitled "An Act to authorize the Board of
Police Commissioners of Baltimore city to increase the