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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon

Pay ment of

the treasurer to pay B. J. Sea wick the sum of forty-seven

warehouse
employees.

dollars, and to pay W. H. Warren the sum of five dollars

for services rendered as employees in State Tobacco Ware-

house, No. 2, during the year eighteen hundred and ninety.

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

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 396.

AN ACT to repeal the act passed at the January session

eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, chapter three hun-

dred and fifty -three, as codified in the Code of Public

General Laws, article twenty -seven, title " Crimes and

Punishments" sub-title "House of Refuge," section

three hundred and fifty-three, and to re-enact the same

with amendments.

WHEREAS, the act passed at the January session eighteen

Preamble

hundred and seventy -eight, chapter three hundred and

fifty-three, reduced the number of managers of the House

of Refuge below the number provided by law, prior to said

act : and whereas the corporation, the House of Refuge,

refused to accept the provisions of said act, and whereas

said act was not considered operative, and was not acted

upon by the members of said corporation, the House of

Refuge, nor by the mayor and city council of Baltimore,

nor by the successive governors of the State after the pas-

sage of said act, all of whom continued to elect or appoint

the managers of said House of Refuge in accordance with

the provisions of the law, existing prior to the passage

of said act, and whereas doubts have arisen since the

adoption of the Code of Public General Laws of the year

eighteen hundred and eighty-eight in which the said act

of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, chapter 343 was

codified, as to whether the said section three hundred and

fifty-three of article twenty- seven of the Code of Public

General Laws, is now operative ; therefore in order to

remove all doubts in reference thereto.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Amend-

Maryland, That section three hundred and fifty-three of

ment.

article twenty- seven of the Code of Public General Laws,