JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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CHAPTER 59.

AN ACT to add an additional section to article forty

of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled

" fines and forfeitures," to come in after section

three.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Addition to

Maryland, That the following additional section be

General Laws

added to article forty of the Code of Public General

Laws, entitled " fines and forfeitures," to come in

after section three :

4. Any person who shall or may hereafter be com-

mitted to jail by the judgment of any court of justice,
or by any justice of the peace of this State, for non-

payment of any fine and costs not exceeding the sum

of fifty dollars, who shall have remained in custody

Imprisonment
for fine and

as aforesaid for the space of thirty days, or any

costs

person who shall or may hereafter be committed to

jail in manner aforesaid for non-payment of any fine

and costs above fifty, and not exceeding one

hundred and fifty dollars, who shall have remained

in custody aforesaid for the space of sixty days, shall

be discharged from further imprisonment on account

of said fine and costs; prodded, such person shall

Proviso.

prove to the satisfaction of the court imposing said

fine and costs, or any judge thereof, or justice of the

peace, as the case may be, that he or she is unable to

pay said fine and costs.

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

effect from the date of its passage.

In force.

Approved, March 10th, 1874.