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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That if any such electric railroad

company from which the tax as herein provided be due and

Gross receipts

payable on their gross receipts- and earnings, shall fail or

and earnings.

neglect to pay the same to the Treasurer of the City of Cumber-

land and the Treasurer of Allegany County as herein provided

for, for the space of sixty days after the day on which the

same shall become due and payable as provided for in this

Act, said company shall for such offense, forfeit and pay to the

said Treasurer of the City of Cumberland and the Treasurer

of Allegany County, an additional amount of ten per centum

as penalty or damages to be added to the said tax so due and

unpaid, and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of the City

of Cumberland and the Treasurer of Allegany County to add

Suit to be

the same to said account, and forthwith make out said account

brought for
taxes and in-

and to certify to the same under the seal of his respective

terest.

office, and to cause suit to be brought for said tax and interest

thereon, as aforesaid, in the Circuit Court for Allegany County.

in the name of the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland;

for the sum or sums due said city, and in the name of the

County Commissioners of Allegany County for the sum or

sums due said county.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 606.

AN ACT to appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars

for each of the two fiscal years ending on the thirtieth

day of September, 1905 and 1906, respectively, to the Henn

Watson Children's Aid Society of Baltimore.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Appropriation

land, That the sum of one thousand dollars is hereby appro-

to charitable
institution.

priated to the support of the Henry Watson Children's Aic

Society of Baltimore, for the fiscal year 1905, and the like

sum of one thousand dollars for the fiscal year 1906.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.