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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 166.

AN ACT to provide a sum of money to pay M.

Bannon and Henry Aisquith for professional ser-

vices rendered the State.

Whereas, by act of eighteen hundred and seventy-
six, chapter three hundred and seventy, all owners

of tobacco stored in the State tobacco warehouses

Preamble.

numbers one and two, which were burned on the

seventh of February eighteen hundred and seventy-

five, who claimed that the State was answerable for

the injury to their property in said warehouses, were

authorized to bring suit in the Circuit Court for

Anne Arundel county, and many of them did bring

suit in said court.

And whereas, under the authority of said act, at

the request of the Comptroller and by direction of

Preamble.

the Attorney General, M. Bannon and Henry Ais-

quith accumulated the evidence and prepared said

cases for trial, expending much labor and time

therein; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly

Upon cer-

of Maryland, That upon the certificate, under seal

tificate.

of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel

county, of the name and date of the institutor of

each suit under said act, to which the said M. Bannon

and Henry Aisquith appeared, the Comptroller of

Comptroller

the Treasury be and he is hereby authorized and

directed to
draw warrant

directed to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer for

the payment to M. Bannon the sum of twenty-five

dollars and for payment to Henry Aisquith the sum
of twenty-five dollars for compensation to said parties
for each case so certified by said clerk as aforesaid ;

and the sum of fourteen hundred dollars, or so much

thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated

for said purposes.

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

In force.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 27, 1878.