ELIHU B. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 391.

AN ACT to reimburse to the county commissioners of Carroll

county, money erroneously paid into the State treasury on ac-

count of marriage licenses, issued under chapter four hundred

and ninety-seven, of the acts of assembly, eighteen hundred

and eighty-six, by William N. Martin, clerk of the circuit court

for Carroll county, Maryland.

WHEREAS, by a decision of the court of appeals of Maryland,

in the case of the State versus Davis, vide seventy Maryland re-

ports, page two hundred and thirty-seven, it was determined that

all money from marriage licenses under chapter four hundred and

Preamble.

ninety-seven, of the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-six, was

legally retainable by the clerks of the courts issuing the same ;

and,

WHEBEAS, under a misinterpretation of said law and until the

above case was decided, said William N. Martin, clerk as aforesaid,

did pay into the State treasury the following amounts, that is to

say : for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, the sum of

Preamble.

forty-five dollars and thirteen cents ($45.13); for the year eigh-

teen hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of one hundred dollars

and seventy-two cents ($100.72); for the year eighteen hundred

and eighty-eight, the sum of one hundred and eighteen dollars

and seventy-six cents ($118.76), aggregating the sum of two hun-

dred and sixty-four dollars and sixty-one cents ($264.61); and,

WHEREAS, said clerk should have returned said amounts to

said State treasury as excess of fees in the several years to which

Preamble.

they belong, he having received full compensation for the dis-

charge of his duties and for the expenses of his office for said

years as provided by law; and,

WHEBEAS, under an act of assembly passed at January session

eighteen hundred and eighty-two, chapter one hundred and eighty-
nine, the treasurer of the State of Maryland is authorized and di-

Preamble.

rected to pay to the county commissioners of Carroll county in each
and every year such excess of fees as may be paid into the treasury

of the State after the first day of December, in the year eighteen

hundred and eighty-one, by the clerk of the circuit court for Car-

roll county, being the amount of fees received by said clerk in ex-

cess of his compensation for the discharge of his duties and for

the expenses of his office; therefore,

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

That the comptroller of the treasury is hereby authorized and

To pay

directed to draw his warrant upon the State treasurer in favor of

the county commissioners of Carroll county for said sum of two

hundred and sixty-four dollars and sixty-one cents, agreeably to

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