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pany shall have a lien on all interest of said debtor
to the company in such stock.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the aforesaid act,
entitled an act to incorporate the Merchants Mutual
Insurance Company of Baltimore, together with the supplements and the foregoing amendments thereto,	Shall endure.
shall endure for the further period of forty years in
addition to the period named in section twenty-two
of said act as originally passed.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 380.
AN ACT to pay to Thomas Dent, justice of the
peace for St. Mary's county and also James H.
Saunders, a constable of said county, for services
rendered to Captain Timmons in the execution of
the oyster laws of the State.
WHEREAS, Thomas Dent, a justice of the peace for St. Mary's county, and James H. Saunders, a consta-	Preamble
ble of said county, did, in the winter of eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-three, for three weeks, aid Captain
Timmons, of the oyster police force, in the execution
of the oyster law of the State; and
WHEREAS, their several accounts were presented
to the Board of Fishery force at Annapolis, and were
rejected and returned with a letter from Governor	Preamble
Whyte that said fishery force at Annapolis had no
jurisdiction of the same, but their redress would be
with the Legislature of the State ; therefore —
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Comptroller be and he is hereby	Adjust accounts
authorized to adjust the accounts of Thomas Dent,