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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Council of Baltimore, loaned to the Western Maryland Rail-
road Company, and falling due on the first day of January,
nineteen hundred and two, secured by a covenant of the
Western Maryland Railroad Company with Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, bearing date the third day of April,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and recorded among the
Land Records of Baltimore City, in Liber G. R., No. 561,

Sinking fund.

folio 16, etc., and to provide a sinking fund for the redemp-
tion of the stock authorized to be issued by this ordinance,"
be and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed, and it shall
have the same force, effect and operation in all respects what-
soever, as if before its passage, the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore had been, by an Act of the General Assembly of
Maryland expressly authorized to pass the said ordinance.

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

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 281.
AN ACT to refund to Thomas Moore, of Calvert County,
money paid into the State Treasury for a dredging license
which was never used by him.

Calvert Co.

WHEREAS, On October 19, 1899, Thomas Moore, of Calvert
County, paid into the State treasury twenty-eight dollars and
thirty-six cents for dredging license of the sloop Wm. T.
Houseman, which license was never used by said Moore, and
that this state of facts had been certified to by the State fiscal
officers; therefore,

Refund a sum
of money to
Thomas Moore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Comptroller be and he is hereby directed to
draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of Thomas Moore,
of Calvert County, for twenty-eight dollars and thirty-six
cents, to reimburse the said Moore for money paid into the
treasury for a dredging license which was not used by said
Moore, and the Treasurer be and he is hereby directed to pay
the said sum out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated.

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

Approved April 7, 1900.