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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Directed to
pay.

directed to issue his warrant to the treasurer for five
hundred dollars in favor of Frank A. Bond, for
counsel fees incurred by him in defending a suit of
mandamus, to enable him to maintain possession of
the office of Adjutant General and its archives, insti-
tuted by his predecessor on the ground that he held
by a life tenure.

In force.

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

Approved April 3, 1876.

CHAPTER 228.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to pay L.
F. Colton and Company for paper furnished, and
for printing and binding and distributing the re-
port of the Board of State School Commissioners,
for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
as per order of the Governor, in compliance with
acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter
three hundred and seventy-seven, sub-chapter
twelve, section eleven.

Directed to
pay for school
report.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Comptroller of the treasury, be
and he is hereby requested and directed to issue his
warrant upon the treasurer, to pay L. F. Colton and
Company the sum of two thousand, two hundred
and seventy-nine dollars and fifty-five cents, in full
payment of their bill for paper furnished, and for
printing, binding and distributing three thousand
copies of the report of the Board of State School
Commissioners, for the year eighteen hundred and
seventy-four, as per order of the Governor, in com-
pliance with the provision of an act passed at the