FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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lectors, sheriffs, clerks of courts and register of wills, and

other collectors or receivers of public moneys, and their se-

Comp-

curities, and against corporations and individuals who may

troller
to adjust

be indebted to the State, in all cases where said claims

claims

accrued prior to and including the year 1890, and whether

said claims be in the form of judgment or otherwise ; and

for the purpose of closing all such cases, the Comptroller is

fully authorized to compromise the same by abating the in-

terest that has accrued, or any portion thereof, or any part

of the principal debt, in his discretion, so as best to sub-

serve the interest of the State, and shall grant discharges

to the said parties and their securities, upon the payment

into the treasury, of the amount required by him to be paid

in the settlement as aforesaid ; provided, however, that the

Governor and Treasurer, for the time being, shall each ap-

prove in writing, and such abatement, before the same shall

be effective ; and provided further, that no discharge or ac-

quittance under this section shall be effective, unless the
party or parties to be benefitted by the same, shall first pay

the attorney who shall have the case in hand, the legal fees

and all fees of clerks or sheriffs.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That this act shall take effect

Effective

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 10th, 1892.

CHAPTER 84.

AN ACT to repeal the act passed at the January session

eighteen hundred and seventy-six, chapter two hundred

and sixty-eight, entitled an act to authorize Geo. L.

Michaels of Garrett County to erect two gates on the pub-

lic road leading through the farm of the said Geo. L.

Michaels.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That chapter two hundred and sixty-eight of the

Repeal.

acts passed at the January session eighteen hundred and

seventy- six be and the same is hereby repealed.

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

on the first day of November eighteen hundred and ninety-

Effective.

three.

Approved March 10th, 1892.