WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 117

	CHAPTER 83.
	AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners
	of Carroll county to release Lawrence Zepp, Reu-
	ben W. Stern, Edwin K. Gernaud, John Bucking
	ham and Edwin F. Reese, surviving obligors of
	Jacob Holmes, deceased, late collector of county
	taxes for Westminster district, Carroll county,
	Maryland.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland, That the County Commissioners
	of Carroll county be and they are hereby authorized
	and empowered to release Lawrence Zepp, Reuben	Empowered
	W. Stern and Edwin K. Gernaud, surviving obli-	to release
	gors of Jacob Holmes, deceased, from the payment
	of the judgments recovered against them as sureties
	upon the bond of the said Jacob Holmes, as col-
	lector of county taxes for Westminster district,
	Carroll county, for the year eighteen hundred and
	seventy-one, at the May term, eighteen hundred and
	seventy-six, of the Circuit Court for Carroll county,
	in favor of the County Commissioners of Carroll
	county, and also John Buckingham, Lawrence Zepp
	and Edwin F. Reese, surviving obligors of Jacob
	Holmes, deceased, from the payment of the judg-
	ments recovered against them as sureties upon the
	bond of the said Jacob Holmes as collector of
	county taxes for Carroll county, Westminster dis-
	trict, Carroll county, for the year eighteen hundred
	and seventy, at the May term, eighteen hundred
	and seventy-six, of the Circuit Court for Carroll
	county, in favor of the County Commissioners of
	Carroll county, or release them from the payment of
	so much of said judgments as the County Commis-
	sioners of Carroll county may deem proper.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	Effective.
	effect from the date of its passage.
	Approved March 25, 1880.