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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Calvert county, for the period of three years from

the passage of this act, except from land in said

waters located and appropriated, or which may be

hereafter located and appropriated, by virtue of any
Act or Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland

authorizing the location and appropriation thereof

for the purpose of protecting, preserving, depositing,

Penalty.

bedding or sowing oysters, and any person violating
the provisions of this law shall be deemed guilty of

a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction thereof

before a justice of the peace of said county be fined

a sum not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That for the purposes

A line drawn

of this act a line drawn from the steamboat wharf

from.

on Solomon's Island, and running in a northeasterly

direction to Township point on Rousby Hall farm,

shall be the dividing line between the mouth of Mill

creek and the Patuxent river.

In force.

SEC, 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 164.

AN ACT to provide for the payment of a sum of

money to Charles J. M. Gwinn for clerical ser-

vices and printing bills.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly

Comptroller
directed to

of Maryland, That the Comptroller of the Treasury
is hereby authorized and directed to draw his war-

draw warrant

rant on the Treasurer for the payment to Charles J.

M. Gwinn, Attorney General, the sum of seventeen

hundred and forty-eight dollars and eighty cents, or

so much thereof as may be necessary, being the

Clerical

amount paid by him, or payable by him, for clerical

services and
printing bills.

services and printing bills in connection with the
duties of the office of Attorney General from his

election as such Attorney General to December