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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 349.

AN ACT to change the name of the town of Sandy
Hill, in the Eighth Election District of Wor-
cester County, to the name of Stockton.

Name changed

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the town of Sandy Hill, in the
Eighth Election District of Worcester County, is
changed, and shall hereafter be known and called
by the name of Stockton.

In force.

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

Approved. April 4, 1870.

CHAPTER 350.

AN ACT to repeal the Act entitled "An Act to
regulate the compensation of the State's Attor-
ney of Worcester County," passed February
eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and
to re-enact the same with amendments.

Repealed and
re-enacted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Act entitled "An Act to
regulate the compensation of the State's Attorney
of Worcester County, passed at the January Ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be and the
same is hereby repealed, and the following enacted
in its place:

Levy for at-
torney's fee.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the County Com-
missioners of Worcester County be and they are
hereby required to allow to, and levy for the use
of the State's Attorney for Worcester County, in
all cases which may be hereafter tried by him in
said county, the fees following, to wit: In every
case of murder, arson or rape, twenty dollars; in
every case of felony, other than murder, arson or
rope, ten dollars; in every case of misdemeanor,
punishable by confinement in the penitentiary, five
dollars; and in all other misdemeanors, three dol-
lars and thirty-three and one-third of a cent; pro-