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JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
Company to the laborers and their assignees for work and
labor done and materials furnished upon said canal, and
request all the creditors of the Canal Company to file their
claims with the said Charles A. Little; and
WHEREAS, A considerable number of those to whom said
Canal Company is indebted for labor done for the said com-
pany in and upon said canal, and for supplies and materials
furnished to said company since the year eighteen hundred
and seventy-seven, did file their claims with the said Charles
A. Little, auditor, duly probated; and
WHEREAS, After the passage of Chapter one hundred and
thirty-six and a-half, of the Acts of eighteen hundred and
ninety-six, of the Laws of Maryland, the said owners of a
large number of said claims and judgments were innocently
under the impression that they had complied with all the
requirements of the law, so as to entitle their claims to the
benefit of the waiver of the State's lien, provided for in said
Chapter one hundred and thirty-six and one-half of the said
Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-six; and,
WHEREAS, They have since discovered that their claims,
not having been proven in accordance with the provisions of
said law, they were not entitled to the benefit of said law; and
WHEREAS, Their claims are just as meritorious as those
which will under the provisions of the said law get the bene-
fit of said waiver, and they were innocently ignorant of their
rights under said law; and,
WHEREAS, It is just and right that the State of Maryland
should recognize the claims and protect the owners thereof so
far as it can, although they may not have complied with the
provisions of Chapter one hundred and thirty -six and one-
half of the Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety -six, by reason
of said misunderstanding and misapprehension in their minds;
now therefore,
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