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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 181.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the County

Commissioners of Washington county to adjust

and settle certain claims for interest on taxes col-

lected by collectors of taxes in said county ; to

discontinue certain suits brought against said col-

lectors and their bondsmen in the Circuit Court

for Washington county, under the provisions of"

section eight hundred and seventy-two of chapter

two hundred and seventy-four, acts eighteen hun-

dred and seventy-six, and to enter certain

judgments in said court obtained satisfied.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of

Washington county be and are hereby authorized and

directed to inquire and ascertain what amount of

interest, if any, upon the taxes levied by said county

commissioners, has been collected and wrongfully

retained by any collector of taxes for said county,

and by what right and under what circumstances

the same has been so detained ; and the said com-

missioners are further authorized and directed to

Adjust and

adjust and settle with said collectors and their

settle with
collectors.

bondsmen, all such accounts, according to the equity
and right of the matter; to give receipts and releases

when the amount ascertained to be due the said

county has been paid' over, or when, in their judg-

ment, according to equity and right, the said county
has no claim for such unpaid interest, and such

adjustment and settlement, when made, shall be final

and conclusive; and for the purpose of such adjust-

ment and settlement, all actions heretofore brought

under the provisions of section eighty-seven (2)
of chapter two hundred and seventy-four of the acts

of eighteen hundred and seventy-six shall, at the

discretion of the said county commissioners, be dis-

Acts discon-

continued and abandoned ; and all judgments recov-

tinued.

ered or entered in any such actions shall be entered

" satisfied," on the dockets of the court, by said coun-

ty commissioners.