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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 209.
AN ACT to authorize and direct the Comptroller of the
State Treasury and the Comptroller of Baltimore City,
respectively, to refund to August C. Schmidt money erro-
neously paid into the treasuries, respectively, of said State
and municipality, for licenses.

WHEREAS, In the year 1890 the Liquor License Commis-
sioners of Baltimore City received from August C. Schmidt
the sum of one thousand dollars for liquor licenses, and in the
years 1890-1891, and for licenses under a misconstruction of
the law; and

WHEREAS, The amount due by said party was only one-
half of the amount so paid by him, as was decided by the
Court of Appeals of Maryland in the case of "The State of
Maryland vs. Steifel;" the said decision being reported in
the Maryland Reports, Volume 74; and

WHEREAS, The State received one-fourth of said money so
erroneously paid, and the City of Baltimore three-fourths
thereof, and the same should be refunded by said municipality
in that proportion; therefore;

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Comptroller of the State Treasury be and he is hereby author-
ized and directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the
sum of one hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-five
cents, and the treasurer is directed to pay the same out of
any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Comptroller
of Baltimore.
Refund a sum
of money to
A. C. Schmidt.

And be it enacted, That the Comptroller of Baltimore City
be and he is hereby authorized and directed to draw his war-
rant on the City Register, in favor of August C. Schmidt, for
the sum of three hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-
six cents; and the said City Register is directed to pay the
same out of any moneys in the city treasury not otherwise
appropriated.

And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the
date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1900.

CHAPTER 210.
AN ACT to change the name of the Mortgage and Trust Com-
pany, incorporated by Chapter two hundred and sixty-
three of the Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,