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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1838.

His clerk's

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That for the current year and

compen-
sation.

thereafter, his clerk's compensation shall be such as is now

allowed by law, to a single clerk in the service of the state's

tobacco inspection in Baltimore.

Sec. 13, of

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the thirteenth section of the

act of 1835,
ch. 395,

act of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, chapter three hundred

repealed.

and ninety-five, shall be and the same is hereby repealed ;

Proviso.

Provided nevertheless, that the revenue of every description

annually to be received into the treasury, from all or either of

the companies charged with the construction of the works, for

the execution of which the debt by the said act was intended

Application

to be incurred, shall be applied by the treasurer to the payment,

directed.

first of the interest payable upon the whole debt of the state,

and that the excess of such revenue in any year, above the

interest for the year upon the said public debt, shall be carried

by the treasurer to the state's sinking fund, if in the judgment

of the said treasurer the said fund shall at any time require

such augmentation, to make it fully adequate to the redemption

of the entire debt of the state, by the time it may be redeemed

Faith of

in pursuance of the law by which it was created ; and the faith

the state
pledged.

of the state is hereby inviolably pledged, to keep the said sink-

ing fund subsisting, and in umnteirupted operation, until the

redemption of the whole debt of the state, shall have been

accomplished by the regular compounding of the said sinking

fund.

CHAPTER 392.

AN ACT to prevent Betting on Elections in the State of Maryland.

Betting

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

prohibited.

That from and after the passage of this act it shall not be law-

ful for any person or persons to make any bet or wager on the

result of any election or elections to take place iu this state ;

and any person or persons offending against this act shall be

liable to indictment in the county courts of this state, if the

Penalty for
violating.

offence be commuted in any county, and iu Baltimore city

court if the offence be committed iu Baltimore city, and on

conviction thereof, shall be fined a sum not less than fifty dol-

lars, nor more than five hundred dollars, to be collected as other

fines.

Fines to the

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all fines collected under this

school fund.

act shall be paid to the treasurer of the western shore for the

benefit of the school fund of the state.

Depositea
of bets
forfeited.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That every deposite of money
hereafter in any part of the state as a wager or bet upon elec-

tions in this state or elsewhere, shall be forfeited and paid over

To primary
school fund.

to the levy courts or county commissioners of the county, for
the use of primary schools in said county.