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and so ascertained, and if the violation be the transfer of monies, property, or choses in action, after injunc- tion forbidding such transfer, in addition to the at tachment against the defendant a, summons shall go for the assignee, if he be known, and if it appear that such assignee had knowledge of such injunction, at the time of accepting the transfer, or possession of property, or choses in action, he also shall be held in contempt, and no title shall be deemed to have passed to him, and he may be required to surrender to the court, on its order, the property, money, or choses in action, of which he has become possessed, but if the
purchaser, taker or assignee, be innocent of contempt, his title, if otherwise good, shall be protected; and the court shall take proof of the value of such property, money, or choses in action, disposed of, or assigned, and the fine in all cases provided for, in this section shall remain to the credit of the cause in which the injunction issued, and in the event of final judgment in favor of the party injured, so much thereof as the court may adjudge, shall go to him, and the remainder go as other fines do, and the court may imprison for non-compliance with their order to pay such fine, and may issue execution, in the name of the State for its collection.	Innocent.
53. If any person under attachment for violating an injunction, shall establish his innocence of the charge, he shall be discharged with his costs, which shall be paid by the party complaining.	Shall establish Innocence.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved April 3, 1876.	In force.
CHAPTER 225. AN ACT to regulate the levy for State purposes for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and for subsequent years. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the county commissioners of the