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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 687.

AN ACT to refund to Hutclrins Crawford of Calvert County

a sum of money paid by him to the clerk of the Circuit

Court of Calvert County and by said clerk paid into the

treasury of the State, for a commission as sheriff of said

county, which commission was annulled by the Circuit

Court for Calvert County aforesaid.

WHEREAS at the general election held on the Tuesday

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next succeeding the first Monday of November, in the year

eighteen hundred and ninety-one Hutchins Crawford of Cal-

vert County was by the returns filed with the Governor

shown to have been duly elected sheriff of said county, and

WHEREAS a commission as such sheriff-elect was duly

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forwarded to said Hutchins Crawford by the Governor

through John Sedwick then clerk of the Circuit Court of

Calvert County ; which by said clerk was delivered to said

Crawford and for which the said Crawford paid the said

clerk the sum of twenty dollars ; and

WHEREAS the clerk aforesaid duly forwarded the said

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sum of twenty dollars to the Comptroller of the State Treas-

ury, less five per centum commission to wit : The sum of

nineteen dollars, and

WHEREAS said Crawford was declared by the Circuit

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Court for Calvert County not to have been the duly elected

sheriff and annulled said commission ; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he

Refunding
money.

is hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon

the treasurer of the State in favor of Hutchins Crawford of

Calvert County for the sum of nineteen dollars as hereinbe-

fore recited, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise

appropriated.

Effective.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.