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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 287.

AN ACT to enable William E. Martin to settle his account as

guardian with Eobert McGinn.

Preamble.

WHEEEAS, some doubt has arisen as to the age of Eobert McGinn;

and,

WHEREAS, the said Eobert claims that he has reached the age

Preamble.

of twenty-one years and ought to have the small amount in the

hands of William E. Martin, his guardian, paid him; now, there-

fore,

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

That William E. Martin, the guardian of Eobert McGinn, be and

To settle.

he is hereby authorized and empowered to settle his guardian ac-

count with said Eobert McGinn, and that the said Eobert McGinu

be and he is hereby authorized to execute to said William E. Mar-

tin a release which shall be as valid and binding as if said Eobert

McGinn were twenty-one years of age.

Effective.

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

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.

CHAPTER 288.

AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and ninety-nine, of article

fifteen, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title " Kent county,"

sub-title " Sheriff," and to re-enact the same with amendments.

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

Repeal

That section one hundred and ninety-nine, of article fifteen, of

the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Kent county," sub-title

" Sheriff," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, so

as to read as follows :

SEC. 199. And be it enacted, That the sheriff of Kent county

shall be entitled to receive a sum, not exceeding fifty cents a day,

for boarding and keeping each prisoner committed to his custody,

until the first day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and

ninety-one; and from and after the first day of December, in the

year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the said sheriff shall be

Boarding

entitled to receive a sum, not exceeding thirty-five cents a day,

prisoners

for boarding and keeping each prisoner committed to his custody,

and the said sheriff is hereby required to keep a book at the jail

which he shall procure for the purpose, in which he shall record

the name of each prisoner committed to his custody, and by what

authority, the time when received, and the offense charged, and

also the date of his discharge, which book shall be open to the