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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

County, be and he is hereby authorized and empowered,

Cases for

under the supervision of the resident judge of the said court,

records

to have made suitable cases for the records, books and

papers in said office, at the cost not exceeding the sum of

five hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners

of Wicomico County be and they are hereby authorized and

County
commis-

empowered to levy upon the assessable property of said

sioners to
levy cost

county the sum of five hundred dollars, or so much thereof

thereof

as may be necessary, to pay for the said cases, provided, that

said clerk shall file his account for said work and cases, duly

itemized and probated, and that the judges aforesaid shall

endorse thereon his certificate of the correctness of said bill,

and that the work and cases are satisfactory.

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

Effective

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 31st, 1892.

CHAPTER 271.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to pay E. P.

Duval, State Librarian, moneys spent for boxes, ex-

pressage, storage and shipping Poe's Code.

WHEREAS, in the delivery of Poe's Code by the State

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librarian, as ordered by the General Assembly of Maryland,

no appropriation was made, in the contingent fund of the

State library, to meet the expenses of said delivery ; and

WHEREAS, the first delivery of said code having been by

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the single volume, and there being at the time of said

delivery no sufficient storage room for the same in the State

library, which thereby necessitated the storage and

delivery of the same from a place selected in the city of

Baltimore and

WHEREAS, for the purpose of convenience, the State

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librarian was compelled so to store and have expressed,

(prepaid) boxes and shipped large numbers of said code

from said place of storage, and to that end has made him-

self personally liable for the expenses incident thereto ; and

whereas the trouble, labor and expense of said work has not

iu any way heretofore been provided therefor ; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Appropria-

Maryland, That the sum of five hundred dollars be and the

tion

same is hereby appropriated to pay said costs and expenses,

and the comptroller is hereby directed to issue his warrant