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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for

Preamble

. Somerset County, with the violation of section one hundred

and seventy -four and one hundred and seventy -nine of the

Code of Public Local Laws for Somerset County, as repealed

and re-enacted by chapter forty-four, of the acts of the

General Assembly of Maryland, passed at its January ses-

sion eighteen hundred and ninety, upon the oath and infor-

mation of John R. Pruitt, also a citizen of Somerset

County, was convicted on the twenty -ninth day of November

in the year eighteen hundred and uinety, by said justice

aud fined fifty dollars and costs, which fine was paid to said

justice, who has since paid one half of said fine to the

informer and retained the other half in his hands to be dis-

posed of according to law. And whereas, since the impo-

sition and payment of said fine it has been discovered that

the act of Assembly under which said fine was imposed had

been repealed by chapter six hundred and two of the Acts

of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at said

January session of eighteen hundred and ninety, and was

not in force in Maryland at the time of said conviction and

the imposition of said fine, but said conviction was illegal

and said fine improperly imposed, paid and disposed of,

now, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That said William H. Groscup be and he is

To refund.

hereby authorized and required to repay and restore to said

James E. Dashiell, the sum of twenty-five dollars, the same

being one-half of the said fine imposed by him on said James

E. Dashiell, and which is still remaining undisposed of in

his hands, and the said informer, John R. Pruitt, be required

to repay and restore to said James E. Dashiell, the sum of

twenty -five dollars so as aforesaid received by him, the said

John R. Pruit as the informer in said case, and the said

James E. Dashiell shall have his cause of action against

said Pruitt for the recovery of said amount so as aforesaid

illegally paid to him as such informer, recoverable by suit

before a justice of the peace of the State of Maryland upon

proper proofs of same as other debts of like amount are now

recoverable in the State of Maryland.

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

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1st, 1892.