ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 278.

AN ACT to legalize and make valid and effectual the acts of

Laurence P. Ashton, a justice of the peace of the State of Mary-

land, in Easton district number six of Dorchester county, who

was appointed May the twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and

eighty-eight, and who after resigning continued to perform the

duties of said office- until he again qualified June the sixth,

eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

WHEREAS, Laurence P. Ashton, esq., was duly appointed and

commissioned by the governor of the State of Maryland, a justice

Preamble.

of the peace of the said State, in the sixth election district of

Dorchester county; and,

WHEREAS, the said Laurence P. Ashton did, before the expira-

tion of his term of appointment, resign the office of justice of

the peace, but after resigning continued to perform certain acts

as of his office, under the impression and belief, and all those in-

Preamble.

terested in said acts being under the impression and belief, that

the acts of the said Laurence P. Ashton were valid and effectual

until he again qualified June the sixth, eighteen hundred and

eighty-nine, under his reappointment of May the twenty-third,
eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, but as the validity of such

acts have by some persons been questioned; therefore,

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

That all the acts of Laurence P. Ashton, done and performed in

the capacity of, or as a justice of the peace of the State of Mary-

land, in and for Dorchester county, after resigning January the

seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, until he again quali-

fied June the sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, under a

To make

commission from the governor of the State of Maryland, issued

valid.

May the twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be and

the same are hereby made as valid and effectual and shall have the

same force'and effect in law as if he had not resigned nor been re-

moved.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Effective.

Approved April 3, 1890.

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