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. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 182. AN ACT to authorize the Comptroller to refund to Edgar Plummer, Hiram G. Dudley, David Riley, H. D. M. Howard, L. C. Graves, Charles R. Hamilton, William Hoffman and J. H. Marshall the sum of forty dollars each erroneously paid by them as a tax on their commissions.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, Edgar Plummer, Weigher General of Grain, Hiram G. Dudly, David Riley, H. D. M. Howard, L. C. Graves and Charles R. Hamilton, Deputy Weighers of Grain, and William Hoffman and J. H. Marshall, Weighers of Hay and Straw, each appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate to their respective offices during the session of eighteen hundred and seventy-four to go into their respective offices from the first day of May eighteen hundred and seventy-four, did, when they were qualified upon their commissions before the Clerk of the Superior Court pay to said clerk as a tax on said commissions for the use of the State the sum of fifty dollars each, as required of them by said clerk, when in fact, by the act of eighteen hundred and seventy -four they were only chargeable with the sum often dollars each, as a tax on each of said commissions; and

Preamble.

WHEREAS, the said clerk has paid into the State Treasury the said sums of fifty dollars each as aforesaid, as appears by the certificate of the Comptroller of the Treasury, whereby the said parties have been improperly required to pay, each the sum of forty dollars more than is required by law; therefore,

Issue warrant In favor of

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Comptroller of the Treasury is . hereby requested and directed to draw his warrant on the treasurer for the sum of forty dollars each to be paid to Edgar Plummer, Hiram G. Dudley, David Riley, H. D. M. Howard, L. C. Graves, Charles R. Hamilton, William Hoffman and J. H. Marshall.

In force.

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

Approved March 27, 1876.