1833,

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Passed Mar. 12,1834	A supplement to the act, entitled, an act relating to the Im- portation of Passengers.
Preamble	WHEREAS, doubts are entertained whether under the act to which this is a supplement, the Mayor and city Council of Baltimore, may pay over to the German Socie- ty of Maryland, and the Hibernian Society of Baltimore, a part of any other sums than those received under said act, for the forfeitures thereby provided for; AND WHEREAS, it was the design of said act, to entitle said societies to a proportion of all sums received thereunder, for or on ac- count of the passengers therein mentioned, and that it is proper that a proportion of such sums should be secured to said societies; — Therefore,
Payment over directed	Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Mayor and city Council of Baltimore, be, and hereby is authorised and required to pay over to the said societies, tvvo fifths of as well all sums that have been or shall hereafter be received from or on account of passen- gers aforesaid, for and on account of the assessment of one dollar and fifty cents, for each passenger provided for in the act to which this is a supplement, as of all other sums now received or to be hereafter received, for or on account of forfeitures, or otherwise by the Mayor and city Council of Baltimore, under and by virtue of said act, in the pro-
Proportions	portions between said societies respectively, as follows: that is to say: as to the German society, in proportion to the amounts received as aforesaid, from or on account of German and Swiss Passengers, and as to the Hibernian society, in proportion to the amounts received from or on account of Irish Passengers; and that such payments as to all future accruing receipts aforesaid, shall be made annu- ally hereafter.