JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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bank checks, and all other papers requiring protests,

which may become due and payable on Monday im-
mediately preceding the fourth day of July, eighteen

Payable on
the Saturday
next.

hundred and seventy-six, shall be payable on the

Saturday next preceding the same, and it shall not

be necessary for the holders of such bills of exchange

or promissory notes, payable as aforesaid, to give

notice of the dishonor thereof until the Wednesday

Not to give

next succeeding said day; that notes and obligations

notice of dis-
honor.

due on Tuesday the fourth day of July, 1876, shall

be lawful to be paid on Wednesday immediately

succeeding.

Approved April 8, 1876.

CH AFTER 319.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the County

Commissioners of Frederick county to fund cer-

tain indebtedness of the Board of County School

Commissioners of Frederick county, by issuing

bonds therefor, and to levy a tax for the payment

of the same.

WHEREAS, the County School Commissioners of

Frederick county, borrowed certain sums of money at

Preamble.

different times to maintain their schools and provide

school houses, which said sums of money are now

due and unpaid; and,

WHEREAS, it is desirable that said indebtedness

Preamble.

should be provided for so as to be paid off gradually.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Fred-

erick county, be and they are hereby authorized and

Authorized
and empow-

empowered, in their discretion, to issue bonds to

ered to issue
bonds.

an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dol-

lars, in sums of not less than one hundred nor more

than one thousand dollars each, to be signed by the