EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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more, or a majority of said taxables, to said County Com-

missioners, in which case the said County Commissioners shall

New assess-
ment at ex-

have jurisdiction for the purpose of enlargement, straightening,

piration of

cleansing out, repairing or extending such ditch or ditches,

twenty years.

and shall thereupon proceed to appoint a commission of ju-

dicious and impartial freeholders, as provided in Article 25

of the Public General Laws, for the locating and opening of

a ditch or ditches, who shall make an assessment and return

of their proceedings in the manner provided in said Article

25, which shall be subject to an order of review as provided

in said Article 25.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted that this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 29, 1904.

CHAPTER 155.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Comptroller of the State

Treasury and the County Commissioners of Baltimore County,

respectively, to refund to George Brehm and Henry A.

Brehm. co-partners, trading as George Brehm & Son, money

paid by them for liquor license granted or to be granted to

Amon Dorsey for the year 1903-1904, which license was

never taken from the clerk's office of the Circuit Court of

said County.

WHEREAS, The said George Brehm and Henry A. Brehm,

trading as George Brehm & Son, brewers of beer, paid to the

To refund
money paid

Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County the sum of

for liquor

two hundred dollars for liquor license for Amon Dorsey for

license.

the year 1903-1904, but never received said license, and that

subsequent thereto the said Amon Dorsey concluded not to

avail himself of or accept said license, whereupon application

was made to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore

County to have said license transferred to George Diller, but

objection having been made to the transfer or granting said

license to said Diller, the Circuit Court for Baltimore County

declined to order said transfer or to permit the same.

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

land, That the Comptroller of the State Treasury be and he

State to re-

is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the

fund one-
fourth.

Treasurer in favor of George Brehm & Son for the sum of

fifty dollars ; and the Treasurer is directed to pav the same out

of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.