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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

gister in suit for the use of the State in which suit
a recovery shall be had for the amount appearing
to be due with interest at the rate of ten per cent,
per annum from the date or dates when the same
was payable as aforesaid, which recovery shall be
evidence of misbehavior, and upon conviction
thereof the said Clerk or Register shall be removed
from office, which shall thereupon be filled as pre-
cribed by the Constitution, and such failure on the
part of any Clerk or Register shall amount to a
forfeiture of the commission to which he would
otherwise be entitled.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date its passage.

Approved March 28, 1868.

CHAPTER 197.

AN ACT to amend the Seventh Section of the
Eighteenth Article of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws, providing for the payment of Public
Monies by Clerks of Courts.

Repealed and
re-enacted,

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Seventh Section of the
Eighteenth Article of the Code of Public General
Laws be and the same is hereby repealed, and re-
enacted as follows :

Penalty

Sec. 7. Each clerk shall, on the first Mondays
of March, June, September and December, in each
and every year, pay to the treasurer all public
money, which he may have received, and on his
failure to do so within thirty days thereafter, his
bond may be put in suit for the use of the State,
in which suit recovery shall be had for the amount
appearing to be due the State, with interest at the
rate of ten per cent, per annum, from the date or
dates when the same became payable as aforesaid ;
and a failure on the part of any clerk to make such