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	shall be presented to the said County Commis-
	sioners within eighteen months from the said first
	day of June in the year in which such taxes were
	levied. &c. And in no case shall the said county
	commissioners allow credits for erroneous or in-
	solvent tax-bills, unless satisfactory proof be pro-
	duced ; under oath, that said bills cannot be col-
	lected, and the officers or collectors now charged
	with the balances of taxes due on the levies of
	eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and of eigh-
	teen hundred and seventy-eight, shall close up	Collectors to
	their accounts and make final settlement with the	close up.
	County Commissioners of Baltimore county, and
	pay said balances into the treasury of said county
	within six months from the date of the passage of
	this act, and in default thereof their official bond
	(as also the official bond of any other collector
	failing to comply with the requirements of this
	act) shall be liable to be put in suit by the County
	Commissioners of Baltimore county.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	Effective.
	effect from the date of its passage.
	Approved April 10, 1880.

CHAPTER 197.

AN ACT to repeal section one of chapter one
hundred and thirty-four of the acts of eighteen
hundred and seventy-six, entitled " An act regu-
lating and making lawful the setting of pound
nets in the waters of the Elk, Sassafras and
Bohemia rivers, and their tributaries, in Cecil
county," and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That section one of chapter one
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