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	CHAPTER 273.
	An act to prohibit the payment of employees of cer-
	tain corporations operating in Allegany county
	otherwise than in legal tender money of the United
	States.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland, That every corporation engaged
	in mining or manufacturing or operating a railroad
	in Allegany county, and employing ten or more
	hands, shall pay its employees the full amount of
	their wages in legal tender money of the United
	States; and that any contract by or on behalf of any
	such corporation for the payment of the whole or of any part of such wages in any other manner than herein provided, shall be and is hereby declared ille	Pay in legal tender.
	gal, null and void; and that every such employee
	shall be entitled to recover from any such corpora-
	tion employing him the whole or so much of the
	wages earned by him as shall not have been actually
	paid to him in legal tender money of the United
	tates, without set-off or deduction of his demand
	for or in respect of any account or claim whatever.
	SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That nothing in
	this act shall be construed to prevent any such cor-
	poration from demising to any of its employees the
	whole or any part of any tenement in said county
	of any rent thereon reserved, or from contracting for	How con- strued
	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.
	SEC. 3. Be it further enacted. That nothing in
	this act contained 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	How con-
	bearer on demand that shall be current at par in	strued.
	this State at the time of such payment, but all pay-
	ments made in such notes with consent of such
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