JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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that the said history is a faithful history of the State

of Maryland and deserves the patronage of the State;

and that upon the delivery of said books to the State

Library, the Comptroller of the Treasury is hereby

directed to issue his warrant to the treasurer to pay

said J. Thomas Scharf for the said History of Mary-

land at the rate often dollars per copy.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That two hundred and

fifty copies, of said Scarf's History of Maryland,

Be distributed

shall be distributed by the State Librarian to such

State and county officers, in the various counties and

the City of Baltimore, or exchanged for useful pub-

lications, in other States, as the Governor shall direct.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

In force.

Approved April 7, 1876.

CHAPTER 347.

AN ACT to declare the sanction of the General As-

sembly of Maryland, to the bequest of Henrietta

M. Bruff, late of Kent county, deceased, to the

Vestry of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church,

Chester Parish, at Chestertown in said county.

WHEREAS, Henrietta M. Bruff, late of Kent county,

deceased, by her last will and testament, duly ad-

Preamble

mitted to probate in the Orphan's Court of Kent

county, on the eighteenth day of March, in the year

one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, be-

queathed unto the Vestry of St. Paul's Protestant

Episcopal Church, Chester Parish at Chestertown,

in said county, and their successors, one thousand

dollars (being a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Bond,

for that amount) for the use and benefit of said

church; therefore,