JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 373

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That section seventeen of	Repealed and
said article fifty-six, is hereby repealed and re-enacted	re-enacted
so as to read as follows :
SEC. 17. If any individual co-partnership or firm
shall use or exercise the business or occupation of a	Penalty for
stock broker, or an exchange broker, or a bill broker,	failure
or a pawn broker, without having procured a license,
as required by this act, he shall be subject to a pen-
alty of five hundred dollars for each offence, one-half
for the use of the State, and the other half to the in-
former.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved, April 6th, 1874.
CHAPTER 257.
AN ACT to refund to John W. Tyler, Henry F.
Chelton, and Major Todd, the State's portion of
certain fines remitted and certified by the Gover-
nor, after having been paid into the Treasury.
WHEREAS, His Excellency, the Governor, has re-
mitted the State's portion of its fine imposed upon	Preamble
John W. Tyler by George E. Haddaway, Esq., a jus-
tice of the peace for Talbot county, and
WHEREAS, said portion of said fine has been paid
into the Treasury, and could therefore only be re-	Preamble.
funded by act of Assembly, and
WHEREAS, said State's portion of the said throe
fines, including the fines imposed by said George E.	Preamble
Haddaway upon Henry F. Chelton, on or about the
ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy
three; and also the State's portion of the fine imposed
by said George E. Haddaway, on or about the twenty-
seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-
three, on said Major Todd, have all been paid into
the Treasury of the State, and