ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 222.

AN ACT to refund to the Adams Express company the State

license tax paid by said company under the act of eighteen

hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and seventy,

the said license tax having been declared unconstitutional by

the supreme court of the United States.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the comptroller of the treasury be and he is hereby directed

to issue his warrant on the treasurer of Maryland, to refund to
the Adams Express company, a company engaged in the trans-
portation of goods from State to State, the sum of four thousand

To refund.

eight hundred and twenty-five dollars, the said amount having

been paid into the treasury by said Adams Express company

under and in pursuance of the provisions of the act of eighteen

hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and seventy,

imposing a license tax on the business of said company, which

said tax has been declared by the supreme court of the United

States, as a violation of the constitution of the United States.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the release of John

Hoey, of New York, the president of said Adams Express com-

pany, signed, sealed and executed before a notary public, shall be

Release.

a sufficient acquittance to the treasurer of the State for the pay-

ment of said amount hereby directed to be refunded.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 31, 1890.

CHAPTEE 223.

AN ACT to add an additional section to article twenty-seven, of

the Code of Public General Laws, title "Crimes and Punish-

ments," sub-title "Fraud, warehouse, storage and elevator re-

ceipts," to come in after section one hundred and nineteen of

said article, and to be designated as "Section one hundred and

nineteen A," relating to the fraudulent use of elevator and

other receipts.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the following section be and the same is hereby added to

article twenty-seven of the Code of Public General Laws, title

"Crimes and Punishments," sub-title "Fraud, warehouse, storage

To all.

and elevator receipts," to came in after section one hundred and