misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in the
Criminal Court of Baltimore, shall be fined in a sum
not exceeding two hundred dollars, nor less than
fifty dollars, for every such offence. And such
trustee, attorney, executor or administrator, receiving
or retaining such portion of such fee or commissions,
and not accounting for it to the proper parties, shall
be liable in a suit on his bond for double the amount
so received or retained by him, to the cestui qui trust,
the principal, or to any person interested in the
estate which he represents.
SEC. 127. The proceeds of such auction duties to
the amount of twenty thousand dollars, shall be paid
over by the Comptroller of Baltimore city, as the
same shall be received by linn, to the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, to he by said Mayor and City
Council annually appropriated to the purpose of
deepening and improving a channel in the Chesa-
peake Bay and Patapsco River, and the harbor of
the City of Baltimore.
SEC. 128. It shall be the duty of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, on or before the fifteenth
day of September in. each year, to report to the Comp-
troller of the State a fair and a strict account of their
disbursement of the fund arising from said auction
duties, as, and to the amount the same are appropri-
ated in the last preceding sections, in relation to the
deepening and improving said channel, Patapsco
River and Baltimore city harbor; and the said Comp-
troller shall report the same to the General Assem-
bly.
SEC. 129. If the net proceeds of said auction duties
shall exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars, the
excess of said duties above that sum shall, for each
and every year that they shall exceed that sum, be
paid over by the Comptroller of the City of Balti-
more to the Treasurer of the State; and in case of
such excess as aforesaid, the Comptroller of the City
of Baltimore shall also render to the Comptroller of
the State a brief statement or account, showing the
amounts received by him on account of auction duties,
the amount paid the Mayor and City Council of
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Disposition
of proceeds of
auction duties
Duty of
Mayor and
City Council.
Excess to be
paid to the
Treasurer of
the State.
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