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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Sheriffs shall
execute bonds
to the State
in certain
sums.

2. He shall also before he acts as such give bond to the State
of Maryland in the penalty of twenty-five thousand dollars,
with security to be approved by two Judges of the Orphans'
Court, or the Judge of the Circuit Court for his county,
if he be elected for a county, or any two Judges of the
Orphans' Court of Baltimore City, or the Judge of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City, if he be elected for said
city, with condition that he shall well and faithfully execute
the office of sheriff of ———— county or the City of Baltimore,
in all things appertaining thereto, and shall well and truly

Sheriffs of
Harford and
Calvert
Counties.

perform all the duties required by law to be by him per-
formed; provided, that the sheriffs elected for Harford and
Calvert Counties shall be required to give bonds in the penalty
often thousand dollars, and for no greater sum.

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 453.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections
185 and 1 86, o'f Article 1, of the Code of Public Local Laws,
title "Allegany County," sub-title "Manufacturers and
Miners."

Allegany Co.
Manufacturers
and miners.

SECTION 1. Re it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 185 and 186, of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "Allegany County," sub-title "Manufacturers
and Miners," be and the same are hereby repealed and re-en-
acted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

Regulating
pay of
employees.

185. Every corporation engaged in mining or manufactur-
ing or operating a railroad in Allegany County, and employing
ten or more hands, shall pay its employees the full amount
of their wages in legal tender money of the United States,
and any contract by or on behalf of any such corporation for
the payment of the whole or of any part of said wages, in any
other manner than provided shall be and is hereby declared
illegal, null and void; and every such employee shall be entitled
to recover from any such corporation employing him, the
whole or so much of the wages earned by him as shall not
have been actually paid to him in legal tender money of the
United States without set-off or deduction of his demand for
or in respect of arty account or claim whatever, but no such
corporation employing hands as aforesaid shall issue any scrip
or metallic or paper checks in payment of the sums due such
employees, nor shall such employees make any contract with
its employers by which such employees shall be compelled to