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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Baltimore," sub-title "Tenement and Lodging Houses," as
renacted by the Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
Chapter one hundred and twenty-three, be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read
as follows:

How described

508. A tenement house shall be taken to mean and include
every house, building or portion thereof which is rented,
leased or hired out to be occupied as the house or residence
of more than three families living independently of another
and doing their own cooking upon the premises, or by more
than two families upon a floor, so living and cooking, but
having a common right in the halls, stairways, water-closets
or privies, or some of them. A lodging house shall be taken
to mean and include any house or building, or portion thereof,
in which persons are harbored or received or lodged for hire
for a single night or for less than a week at one time, or any
part of which is let for any person to sleep in for any time less
than a week, or in which free lodgings are habitually provided!
for or given to more than five persons who are not permanent
occupants thereof. A cellar shall be taken to mean and include
every basement or lower story of any building or house of
which one-half or more of the height from the floor to the
ceiling is below the level of the street adjoining.

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 558.
AN ACT to refund to George J. D. Disney, of the City of
Baltimore, the amount erroneously paid by him into the
Treasury of the State of Maryland for an oyster measurer's
license, for the season of 1895 and 1896.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, It appears from the books of the Treasury De-
partment of the State of Maryland, that George J. D. Disney,
of the City of Baltimore, erroneously paid to the Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas for Baltimore City the sum of twenty-
one dollars, on December 3d, A. D., 1895, for an oyster meas-
urer's license for the season of 1895 and 1896, of which said
amount the sum of nineteen dollars and eighty cents was by
said Clerk forwarded to the Comptroller of the State Treasurer;
therefore,

Refund a sum
of money to
G. J. D. Disney.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is hereby
authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer
of the State in favor of George J. D. Disney, of the City of