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small debts, and the sums recovered in any such action to he applied in the same manner as here- inbefore provided.
SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the act en- titled an act to provide for the repairs of Public Roads in Howard County, passed at January ses- sion eighteen hundred and sixty-eight Chapter three hundred and fifty eight, be and the same is hereby repealed.		Repealed.
Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from and after the date of its pas- sage. Approved March 31, 1870.		In force.
CHAPTER 143.
AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to Fund the Floating Debt of the City, to an amount not exceeding eight hundred thousand dollars.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be, and it is hereby authorized to fund the floating debt of the city to an amount not ex- ceeding eight hundred thousand dollars, and to issue the bonds of the city for the amount of the debt so funded, payable at the pleasure of the City of Baltimore after July the first, nineteen hundred, and bearing interest at the rate of six per cent, per	Mayor and City Council may fund.
annum, payable quarterly on the first days of Jan- uary, April, July, and October, in each year until redeemed, as provided in Section one of an ordi- nance of the said the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore entitled "An ordinance to authorize the City Register to fund the floating debt of the city to an amount not exceeding eight hundred thou- 15	Interest pay- able quarterly.