FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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the financial condition of said association for the year

immediately preceding such application.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 671.

AN ACT to reimburse certain money paid into the State

treasury by George B. Oswald, clerk of the Circuit Court

for Washington County, received from Philip Funk, of

said county.

WHEREAS, Philip Funk of Washington County, Mary-

land, did on the first day of October, A. D. 1886, take out

Preamble.

and have issued to him by the clerk of the Circuit Court for

Washington County an oyster house license for one year,

from the first day of October, A. D. 1886, till the first day

of October, A. D. 1887, for which license he paid to the

clerk of the Circuit Court for Washington County the sum

of fifty dollars, which said money was paid by the said clerk

into the State treasury ;

AND WHEREAS, by reasons of the enactment of chapter

248, acts of 1886, known as the "High License Law" for

Washington County, the said Philip Funk was compelled to

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close business on the first day of May, A. D. 1887, and could

no longer follow the business for which said license had been

issued to him and for which he had paid the said fifty dollars

as aforesaid, thereby losing the benefit of said license for

five months ; now, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he

Appro-

is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon

priation.

the treasury of the State of Maryland in favor of Philip

Funk of Washington County, Maryland, for the sum of

nineteen dollars and seventy-nine cents, the same having

been approved by the officers of the Treasury Department.

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

effect from the date of its passage.

Effective.

Approved April 7th, 1892.