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payment shall amount to a forfeiture of the Com- missions to which he would otherwise be entitled, any recovery on the bond or the clerk, for the non-payment of public money received .by him, shall be evidence of a misdemeanor in office, for which, upon conviction, he may be removed.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 28, 1868.	In force.
CHAPTER 198. AN ACT to repeal Section Three of An Act entitled an "Act incorporating the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts," passed December Session, eighteen hun- dred and forty-nine, Chapter one hundred and fourteen, and to enact a substitute therefor, and to add additional sections thereto, as Sections eight and nine.
SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Section Three of the Act in- corporating the Maryland Institute for the Promo- tion of the Mechanic Arts, passed at December Session, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and the following enacted in lieu thereof, and the following addi- tional Sections added thereto as Sections eight and nine.	Repealed.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted. That the objects of the said corporation shall be the encouragement and promotion of manufacture and the mechanic and useful arts, by the establishment of popular lectures upon the sciences connected with them ; by the formation of a school of design, adapted to mechanical and manufacturing purposes ; for pro- viding a library, reading-room and a cabinet of 23	Object,