ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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and that all fees charged to Garrett county for searches heretofore

made in the land office by Hiram P. Tasker, as agent for the com-

missioners of Allegany and Garrett counties, be and the same are

hereby remitted in consideration of the State taxes to be hereafter

collected annually from these unclaimed lands.

SECTION 3. And be it enacted, That after the first day of April,
eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the county commissioners and

the collectors of Allegany and Garrett counties, shall be authorized
to cause all of said military lots that have not been claimed by

living heirs, and on which the taxes have not been paid, to be as-

sessed to the heirs and assignees of the officer or soldier to whom

each lot was originally awarded, and to advertise and sell the same
to the highest bidders for cash, and all sums realized from such

Unclaimed
lots.

sales in excess of the taxes due, shall first be applied to the pay-

ment of all the necessary costs and expenses incurred in tracing

the titles, locating, advertising and selling these unclaimed and

untaxed lands, the net proceeds of all sales so made shall be

paid into the State treasury, and the said county commissioners

shall be authorized to retain one-half of the first year's State

taxes realized from these new assessments and apply the same to

the payment in part of the necessary expenses incurred by them

under existing contracts in having these untaxed lands ferreted

out, the titles traced, the lands located, assessed, and the taxes

collected.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 514.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section one

hundred and fifty-six and one hundred and fifty-nine, of article

twenty-one, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Talbot

county," sub- title "Oysters," and to add a sub-section to section

one hundred and fifty-five, to be known as "Sub-section one

hundred and fifty-five A."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That sections one hundred and fifty-six and one hundred and

fifty-nine, of article twenty-one, of the Code of Public Local

To amend.

Laws, title "Talbot county," sub-title "Oysters," be and the same

are hereby repealed and amended so as to read as follows; also

that a sub-section be added to section one hundred and fifty-five,

to be known as "Sub-section one hundred and fifty-five A," and

to read as follows :