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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.

CHAPTER 265.

AN ACT to refund Catherine S. Philpot certain moneys er-

roneously paid by her to the Treasurer and Collector of

Taxes for Baltimore County for and on account of State

taxes.

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

Refunding

land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is hereby

taxes erron-
eously paid.

authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer

in favor of Catherine S. Philpot for the sum of seventy-nine

dollars and seventy-two cents erroneously paid by her to the

Treasurer and Collector of Taxes for Baltimore County for

State taxes on eleven thousand three hundred dollars Baltimore

City stock for the years 1897 to 1901, inclusive, the same hav-

ing received the recommendation of the Treasury officials.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.

CHAPTER 266.

AN ACT regulating certain primary elections in Harford

County, in the State of Maryland.

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

Regulating
primary elec-

land, That the political parties which at the general election, No-

tions in Har-

vember 3, 1903, polled ten per cent, of the entire vote cast in

ford County.

Harford County shall hereafter, in the year 1905 and biennially

thereafter, nominate three candidates for all local offices to be

voted for at the general election in 1905, and biennially there-

after, including the candidates for the Senate and members of

the House of Delegates, by means of primary election con-

ducted under the provisions of this Act, and not otherwise.

Said candidates may be nominated by direct vole of the duly

registered voters belonging to or acting with said parties in

each precinct of said county, or they may be nominated by

county convention, the delegates to which shall be elected at

primary elections duly held in the different precincts of this

Biennial elec-

county. Said elections shall be biennially held as above stated

tions.

on a day to be fixed by agreement between the governing bodies