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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

In force.

cle, and in recording and publishing the same or otherwise under this article, or in the execution thereof, to be paid by and recoverable from the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and to be provided for by said mayor and city council by taxation or otherwise.

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

Approved April 3, 1876.

CHAPTER 224.

AN ACT to repeal sections fifty-one, fifty-two and fifty-three of article sixteen of the Code of Public General Laws, title " Chancery," sub-title " Injunction," and to re-enact the same with amendments.

Repealedi and re-enacted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That sections fifty-one, fifty-two and fifty-three of article sixteen of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Chancery," sub-title "Injunction," be and the same are hereby repealed, amended an re-enacted so as to read as follows :

Violating an injunction.

91. If any person against whom an injunction has been issued, shall violate the same after service thereof, or shall permit, or connive at the violation thereof by any other person, the court on notice of such violation may issue attachment of contempt against such person, and if on proof the party be adjudged guilty of the contempt, he may be fined or imprisoned, or both, in the discretion of the court.

52. If the violation complained of, be waste after injunction to stay waste, the court shall ascertain the damage done by the waste, by affidavit, or such other proof, as the court may judge necessary, and may fine the defendant to the extent of double the damage done