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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

troller and Treasurer of the State of Maryland the said Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas shall be allowed for such
duplicate license.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 279.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
three hundred and eighty -seven, of Article 4, of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "City of Balti-
more," sub-title "Miscellaneous Local Laws."

City of Balto.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section three hundred and eighty -seven of Article
4, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "City of Balti-
more," sub-title "Miscellaneous Local Laws," be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, so
as to read as follows:

witnesses
attending
courts: fees of,
etc.

Section 387. Witnesses attending any of the courts of
Baltimore City, except the Criminal Court of Baltimore,
shall be entitled to fifty cents a day, and in the Criminal
Court shall not be entitled to said allowance, except by the
express order of the court, and only in such cases as the
court in its discretion may deem proper. But any of the
courts of Baltimore City may, in its discretion, allow itiner-
ant charges to out-of-town witnesses.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1900.

Western
Maryland
Railroad Co

CHAPTER 280.
AN ACT to ratify and confirm the ordinance of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, No. 32, approved February
eight, nineteen hundred, supplementary to and in amend-
ment of Ordinance No. 18, approved March ninth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-eight. The subject matter of both of
said ordinances being the issuing of the stock of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore for the purpose of paying