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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

In force.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved, March 30th, 1874.

CHAPTER 158.

AN ACT to appropriate certain fines to purchasing

a law library, in the place of the one destroyed by

fire, for the Circuit Court for Washington county.

WHEREAS, By the fire which destroyed the Court-

Preamble

House in Hagerstown, in the fall of eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-one, the law library belonging to

said court was also burned, making it necessary to

replace the same at a considerable cost and expense,

therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Fines

Maryland, That hereafter all fines imposed by the

Circuit Court for Washington county, upon persons
convicted in said court of any crime not exceeding

in grade a misdemeanor, shall be collected by the

How used

Sheriff of said county, and used under the order of

said court in purchasing law books for the use of

the public law library in said court.

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

Iu force

effect from the date of its passage, and remain in full

force until April the first, eighteen hundred and

seventy-eight.

Approved, this 30th day of March, 1874.