JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 493

six, on seven hundred acres of land, in the sum of
twenty-nine thousand and fifty dollars; and
WHEREAS, in the year eighteen hundred and	Preamble
seventy, the said Cox presented to the Commission-
ers of Talbot county, a re-survey plat of said lands,
showing the contents to be but five hundred and sixty-
three acres ; and
WHEREAS, the Commissioners of Talbot county,	Preamble
in the year eighteen hundred and seventy, before
the tax-bills for said year were sent out, granted an
abatement on the said lands for the said error in said
quantity of one hundred and thirty-seven acres, in
the sum of five thousand six hundred and eighty-five
dollars; and

WHEREAS, the said Doctor Luther C. Cox, under	Preamble.
the act of the General Assembly of eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-two, chapter three hundred and
ninety, has been refunded for the State taxes paid for
said years of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-eight and eighteen hundred
and sixty-nine; but the Commissioners for Talbot
county declined, on the ground of their having no
legal authority to refund to him the amount of the
county taxes for said years, or to credit him for the
same.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of	Authorized to
Maryland, That the Commissioners of Talbot county	refund
be and they are hereby authorized and required to
refund to Doctor L. C. Cox, or to credit him on his
tax accounts, for the sum of forty-one dollars and
fifty cents, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-
seven ; for the sum of forty-five dollars and forty-
eight cents, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-
eight ; and for the sum of thirty-nine dollars and
eighty cents, with the interest due on said respec-
tive sums, being the amounts due for said three years
as county taxes on the erroneous assessment of one
hundred and thirty-seven acres of his real estate,
valued at five thousand six hundred and eighty-five
dollars.
Approved April 11th, 1874.