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	to adjust and settle the claims of the State against
	all collectors, sheriffs, clerks of courts and registers
	of wills, and other collectors or receivers of public
	monies, and their securities, in all cases where said
	claims occurred prior to and including the year eigh-	The year 1875
	teen hundred and seventy-five, and whether said
	claims be now in the form of judgments or other-
	wise, and for the purpose of closing all such cases,
	the Comptroller is hereby fully authorized to com-	Comptroller
	promise the same by abating the interest that has	authorized to
	accrued, or any portion thereof, or any part of the	compromise.
	principal debt, in his discretion, so as to best sub-
	serve the interest of the State, and shall grant dis-	The interest
	charges to the said parties and their securities upon	of the State.
	the payment into the Treasury of the amount re-
	quired by him to bepaid in the settlement as aforesaid; provided, however, that the Governor and Treasurer	Governor
	for the time being shall each approve in writing of	and Treas-
	any such abatement before the same shall be effec-	urer shall each approve
	tive, and provided further, that no discharge or ac-
	quittance under this act shall be effective unless the
	party or parties to be benefitted by the same shall	Shall first
	nrst pay the State's Attorney who shall have the	pay fees.
	case in hand, the legal fees and all fees of clerks or
	sheriffs.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force.
	effect from the date of its passage.
	Approved March 20, 1878.

CHAPTER 103.

AN ACT to facilitate the examination of titles of
land in Harford county by authorizing the Clerk
of the Circuit Court for Harford county to make
out a general index to the law and equity dockets

in his office, and to provide for the paying for the
same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Clerk of the Circuit Court
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