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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

other cause, such money cannot be safely or reasonably

paid to any person or persons, it shall be lawful for the

mayor and city council to file a bill or petition in any Court

of Equity in the city or county where the property con-

demned, or any portion thereof, lies, and whenever such

court shall be satisfied for any of the persons aforesaid

that such money ought to be paid into such court, it shall

pass such decree as it shall deem proper, aud the payment

of any money into court under any such decree or order

shall be considered in all respects equivalent to a tender

therof to any person or persons entitled to such money and

who may be made a proper party to such proceeding.

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

Effective.

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 30th, 1892.

CHAPTER 166.

AN ACT to repeal sections one, ten, twenty and twenty-

three of article two of the Code of Public Local Laws,

title "Anne Arundel," sub-title " Almshouse," and to re-

enact with amendments sections one and ten.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Re-enacted

Maryland, That sections one, ten, twenty and twenty-three

with

of article two of the Code of Public Local Laws, title

amend-
ments.

" Anne Arundel County," sub-title "Almshouse," be and

the same are hereby repealed and that said sections one

and two be and the same are hereby re-enacted with

amendments so as to read as follows :

1. The County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County

Trustees or

rat their first meeting in the month of January, or as soon

the poor of
Anne

thereafter as possible, in the year eighteen hundred and

Arundel

ninety-three and in each year thereafter, shall appoint

County.

seven discreet and proper persons, one from each election

district of said couuty, to be trustees of the poor of said

county ; aud the county commissioners for said county shall

at their first meeting in the month of April, eighteen

hundred and ninety-two, appoint seven discreet and proper

persons to be trustees of the poor of said county who shall

act as such trustees until their successors are duly appointed

and qualified as herein provided.

10. They, or a majority of them, shall meet together at

the almshouse in said county on the first Monday in Feb-

ruary, yearly, and at such other times as they shall deem