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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 356.

AN ACT to refund Nannie M. Combs and Charlotte C. McSherry

of St. Mary's county, the sum of thirty-one dollars and twenty-

nine cents for taxes paid in error for the year eighteen hundred

and eighty-nine.

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

That the comptroller be and he is hereby directed to issue his war-

To repay.

rant upon the treasurer for thirty-one dollars and twenty-nine

cents, to pay Nannie M. Combs and Charlotte C. McSherry for

money paid by them into the treasury in error in the year eighteen

hundred and eighty-nine.

Effective

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.

CHAPTER 357.

AN ACT to refund to Gideon Lusby of Calvert county, the sum

of forty-seven dollars and fifty cents erroneously paid into the

treasury.

WHEREAS, Gideon Lusby, captain of the schooner Walter Hel-

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len, while sailing in the waters of the Chesapeake bay during the

month of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, had the oyster

number in the jib of said schooner partially blown out in a wind

storm, though the other number in the mainsail remained; and,

WHEREAS, said Lusby on coming into the harbor in the even-

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ing was arrested by the commander, captain L. C. Hook of the

oyster sloop Louisa White, and taken before a justice of the peace

for Calvert county by whom he was fined fifty dollars and costs,

amounting to the sum of fifty-one dollars on the charge of hav-

ing one of said oyster numbers partly blown out of jib as above

set forth, which said fine and costs he fully paid; and,

WHEREAS, the said Lusby had all the necessary licenses to catch

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oysters as required by the laws of the State, and there was no in-

tentional violation of any law; therefore,

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

To repay.

That the comptroller of the treasury of Maryland, be and he is

hereby directed to draw his warrant on the treasurer of the State

in favor of Gideon Lusby, for the sum of forty-seven dollars and

fifty cents being the amount paid into the treasury.

Effective.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted. That this act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.