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Penalty.
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SEC. 3. Any violation of the provisions of this Act shall
subject the said Commissioners, upon conviction, to a fine of
five hundred dollars.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1900.
CHAPTER 410.
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Balto. City.
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AN ACT to refund to Achilles Ford, brother of William G.
Ford, late of Baltimore City, deceased, a sum of money
erroneously paid as collateral inheritance tax by him to
Stephen R. Mason, Register of Wills of Baltimore City, on
the estate of said William G. Ford, deceased, and which
sum of money was covered into the State Treasury by said
Register of Wills, less twenty-five per centum commission
retained by him.
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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, Ann Ford, the mother of the said Achilles Ford
and William G. Ford, departed this life in the year eighteen
hundred and ninety -three, at that time supposed to be intest-
ate, and leaving surviving her her said two sons, her only
heirs at law, and who, as such, would have been entitled to
her estate; and
WHEREAS, In the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven
the said William G. Ford departed this life intestate and
without issue, leaving surviving him his widow, Alverda
Ford, and his brother, the said Achilles Ford, and letters of
administration on his estate were by the Orphans' Court of
Baltimore City granted to his widow, Alverda Ford, who
passed her account in said court on the 27th of December,
1897, and Achilles Ford, his only heir, paid the said Register
of Wills the sum of three hundred and fifty-eight dollars and
five cents as collateral inheritance tax on the said estate sup-
posed to belong to said deceased, and to have passed to him as
his heir at law, when, as matter of fact, the said William G.
Ford left no estate, as by the will of the said Ann Ford,
deceased, which was on the 26th day of February, 1898, found
amongst the wills left for deposit in the office of the Register
of Wills of Baltimore County, and which will was afterwards,
on the 20th day of April, 1898, admitted to probate by the
Orphans' Court of Baltimore County, the said William G.
Ford was given a life estate only in her property, and 'at his
death passed under said will to his brother, Achilles Ford, for
life; therefore,
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