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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

land in and for Anne Arundel County, John G. Crane

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(then), sheriff of Anne Arundel County did, on the seven-

teenth day of February, eighteen hundred and eightv-eight

(having first complied with all the prerequisites of said act

of forfeiture), sell to the said John Johnson the schooner

" Anson " for violation of the oyster laws of the State of

Maryland, said Johnson being then and there the highest

bidder therefor, and

WHEREAS, subsequently said schooner was libelled by an

order out of the United States Court for the district of

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Maryland at the instance of the former owner of said schooner

"Anson," and

WHEREAS, the said Johnson, Campbell and Evans had

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been advised by the State's attorney for" Anne Arundel

County, Hon. James M. Monroe, that the title to said boat

was absolute, under the sale by the State of Maryland, and

dismantled said schooner in order to prevent the moving of

the same, and

WHEREAS, on this account the said Johnson, Campbell

and Evans, were arrested, tried, convicted and fined and

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imprisoned for this alleged offence and paid said fine and

were imprisoned until released by His Excellency Grover

Cleveland, President of the United States, and

WHEREAS, said Johnson being ignorant of the conse-

quences of such dismantling of said schooner, and under

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what he believed to be the instructions of James M. Monroe,

Esquire, State's attorney for Anne Arundel County, he feels

that the State of Maryland is in justice bound to recompense

him for his expenditure and loss by the purchase by him of

the said schooner " Anson," under the laws of the State, as

also for the loss of time by himself, and also for the loss of

time by James Campbell and Thomas Evans paid for by

him, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

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Maryland, That the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars be,

priation.

and the same is hereby appropriated to pay the claim of

John Johnson, James Campbell and Thomas Evans, and the

Comptroller of the Treasury is hereby empowered and

directed to draw his warrant on the treasurer, to the order

of John Johnson, for said sum of monev, the same to be

paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise

appropriated.

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

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.