68 ALLEGANY COUNTY. [ART. I.

set-off or deduction of his demand for or in respect of any
account or claim whatever.
Shaffer v. Union Mining Co., 55 Md. 74.

1880, ch. 873.

186. Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed to
prevent any such corporation from demising to any of its
employees the whole or any part of any tenement in said county
at any rent thereon reserved, or from contracting for or advancing
money to supply him with medicine, or medical attendance
needed for himself or family, or smithing or fuel, and deducting
from the wages of any such employee for and in respect of such
rent, medicine, medical attendance, smithing or fuel, or money
advanced as aforesaid.

Ibid.

187. Nothing in section 185 shall be construed to prevent the
payment, in whole or in part, of the wages of any such employee
in the notes of any bank payable to bearer on demand, that shall
be current at par in this State at the time of such payment, but
all payments made in such notes, with consent of such employees,
shall be as valid and effectual as if made in legal tender money of
the United States.

Ibid.

188. Every such corporation which shall directly or indirectly
enter into any such illegal contract, or make any such illegal pay-
ment, shall be liable to indictment, and upon conviction thereof
in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall, for the first offence
be fined one hundred dollars and for each succeeding offence not
less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand
dollars.

1878, ch. 320.

189. If any individual engaged in mining or manufacturing
in Allegany county, or any association or body corporate carry-
ing on any trade or business in said county, shall, for the space
of thirty days, be indebted to the persons in their employ, or to
furnishers of any raw material, in the aggregate sum of twenty-
five dollars, and shall neglect or refuse to pay the same for the
space of thirty days, the circuit court for said county, as a court
of equity, or the judge thereof in vacation, upon the petition of