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Attorney
General to
enter his ap-
pearance.
In fores.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and as judges of election, and against others for
alleged violation of the Act of Congress approved
May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy, en-
titled "An Act to enforce the right of citizens of the-
United States to vote in the several States of this
Union, and for other purposes," which Act is sup-
posed to be in violation of the rights of the States
in regulating elections, held under their constitutions
and laws, and it is the duty of the States to protect
their citizens in the performance of duties imposed
by State authority; therefore
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Genera! Assembly of
Maryland, That the Governor be and he is hereby
requested to instruct the Attorney General to enter
his appearance and defend the said prosecutions, and
lie is also hereby authorized to defray out of the con-
tingent fund the necessary expenses of the defend-
ants in said cases in procuring the attendance of wit-
nesses, and the Governor is also authorized in his dis-
cretion to employ counsel to assist the Attorney Gen-
eral in defending said prosecutions, to be hereafter
paid by the Legislature.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 1, 1872.
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CHAPTER 208.
AN ACT to incorporate the " Queen City Savings
Bank, of Cumberland, Maryland.
SECTION 1. Be. it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That John Humbird, Frederick Martins,
Asahel Willison, Horace Resley, William E. Wiber,
William M. Price, William R. Getty, Maurice Miller,
A. L. Miller, John S. Combs, and their successors,
shall be and they are hereby constituted a body
politic, by the name of the " Queen City Savings
Bank of Cumberland," and by that name shall have
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