FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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bonds for one thousand dollars each, commonly known as

Treasury Relief Bonds, belonging to the State ; and after

the 30th day of January, 1890, misappropriated two (2)

bonds for one thousand dollars each, commonly known as

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Car Trust Bonds,

belonging to the State; and three (3) bonds for one thousand

dollars each, issued by the Cumberland and Piedmont Rail-

way Company, belonging to the State ; and

WHEREAS, The total costs in all the said suits amount to

the sum of twelve hundred and two dollars and twenty -eight

Preamble.

cents ; and

WHEREAS, A fee of two thousand dollars ($2,000) to the

State's special counsel, said John P. Poe, for his professional

Preamble.

services in said cases, is, in the opinion of the General As-

sembly, a proper compensation for said services ; now,

therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That in conformity with the recommendation of

To relieve

the Governor, that upon the payment of said sureties, or

Stevenson
Archer's

their heirs, devisees or legatees unto the treasurer of this

bondsmen.

State, of the sum of thirty-seven thousand two hundred and

two dollars and twenty -eight cents, (being the amount mis-

appropriated by said Stevenson Archer between the second

day of Febeuary, 1886, and the thirteenth day of February,

1888, and the amount misappropriated by him subsequent

to the approval, on the thirtieth day of January, 1890,

of his third official bond, and the total costs, and the

said fee of two thousand dollars to the said John P.

Poe, State's special counsel in said cases), the said sureties

and their legal representatives, and their heirs, devisees and

legatees shall be released from every and all liability to the

State for and on account of their suretyship for said Archer

on any and all of the official bonds given by him as State

Treasurer, and all judgments or suits against them or any

of them or their legal representatives, or devisees or legatees

of any of them at law or in equity, shall be entered, satisfied

or assigned as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the

duty of the Attorney General of this State, upon receiving

notice from the said officers of the Treasury Department of

Upon

the payment by said sureties, or their legal representatives,

notice of
payment

or devisees, or legatees of any of them as aforesaid, of said

by sold
sureties.

sum of thirty-seven thousand two hundred and two dollars

and twenty-eight cents ; to make such entries in the several

suits brought against said sureties, or their legal repre-

sentatives or devisees or legatees of any of them, as may be