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CHAPTER 171. AN ACT to amend and re-enact the eighty-sixth and eighty-seventh Sections of Article four, of the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "Auc- tions."
SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Sections eighty-six and eighty- seven of Article four, of the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "Auctions," be amended, and re- enacted so as to read as follows :	Re-enacted.
Sec. 86. All real estate and vessels, all wines and ardent spirits, foreign or domestic, all goods, wares, merchandise and effects imported from any place beyond the Cape of Good Hope, all stocks of banks or other incorporated institutions, State or city loans, goods and effects of deceased persons or insolvent debtors, or property sold under an order or decree of any Court at the rate of fifty cents on every hundred dollars, and coffee, tea, sugar and molasses, foreign or domestic, at the rate of ten cents on every hundred dollars.	Auction du- ties.
Sec. 87. All other goods, wares, merchandise and effects which are the production of any foreign country, all domestic manufactures, and all goods, wares, merchandise and effects and property, at what kind soever not enumerated above, at the rate of seventy-five cents on every hundred dollars, save and excepting that class of goods known as gro- ceries and dry goods, which shall only be subject to a duty of ten cents on every hundred dollars.	Exception,
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the day of its passage. Approved March 20, 1868.	In force.

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