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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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CHAPTER 222.
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AN ACT to pay and compensate William Frank
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Tucker, for services rendered in the United States
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Circuit, and the United States District Courts in
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defence of certain officers of registration, judges
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of election and others indicted and prosecuted
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therein for violation, as alleged, of the act of Con-
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gress, entitled " an act to enforce the rights of
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citizens of the United States to vote in the several
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States of the Union, and for other purposes."
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WHEREAS, under the act of the General Assembly
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of Maryland passed at the January session, of eighteen
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Preamble
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hundred and seventy-two, chapter two hundred and
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seven, provisions was made for the defence of certain
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officers of registration, judges of elections, and other
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citizens of this State, then under indictment in the
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United States Courts, for alleged violations of the
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acts of Congress, approved May the thirty-first,
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eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled " an aet to
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enforce the rights of citizens of the United States, to
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vote in the several States of this Union, and for other
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purposes, " and whereas pursuant to the provisions of
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the said act, His Excellency William Pinkney Whyte,
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Governor of Maryland, appointed William Frank
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Tucker to assist the Attorney General of the State,
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in the defence of the parties so prosecuted ; and
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whereas it appears to the General Assembly, that the
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services contemplated by the said act, have been
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duly rendered by the said Tucker according to true
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intent and meaning of the same, therefore —
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Appropriation
to Wm Prank
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Maryland, That the Comptroller of the Treasury of
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Tucker
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the State of Maryland, shall forthwith issue to the
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Treasurer of Maryland, his warrant authorizing and
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directing him to pay to the said William Frank
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Tucker, the sum of four hundred dollars in full
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compensation tor such legal service rendered in such
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cases as was contemplated by the act of Assembly of
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eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter two hun-
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dred and seven.
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