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CHAPTER 96.
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AN ACT to appropriate to the payment of the outstanding
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overdue debt of the 'State, issued under chapter forty-one
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of the acts of eighteen hundred and forty -seven so much
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of the money received of the United States in settlement
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of the claim of the State for direct war taxes, as may be
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necessary therefor, and to forbid the further issue of
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the exchange loan of eighteen hundred and ninety-one
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authorized therefor to the extent of the debt so paid and
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to appropriate the balance of said direct taxes to the
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general sinking fund.
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WHEREAS, the exchange loan of eighteen hundred and
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ninty-one, authorized by chapter three hundred and five of
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the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety, for the purpose of
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redeeming, among others, the debts of the State issued
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Preamble.
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under chapter forty-one of the acts of eighteen hundred and
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forty-seven, has not been negotiated and issued to the
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amount of two hundred and two thousand, six hundred and
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forty -five dollars and seventy -one cents ($202,645.71,) aud
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by virtue of said non -negotiation and non -issue, the treasury
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officers have been without the funds to redeem said over-
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due debt of the State, issued under said chapter forty-one
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of the acts of eighteen hundred and forty-seven ; therefore,
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Maryland, That the sum of two hundred and two thousand,
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six hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy -one cents of
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Appropria-
tion
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the money received by the State from the United States in
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settlement of the claim of the State for direct war taxes, be
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and the same is hereby appropriated to the payment to that
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extent of the overdue debt of the State issued under chapter
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forty-one of the acts of eighteen hundred and forty-
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seven, and the treasurer is directed forthwith to issue
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his call for the redemption of said overdue debt in the usual
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form and on usual notice.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That no part of the exchange
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loan of eighteen and ninety-one provided for under chapter
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Exchange
loan.
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