JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 291

CHAPTER 173.
AN ACT to repeal section twenty-five of article
thirty-eight of the Code of Public General Laws,
title "Fees of Officers," sub-title "Notaries Pub-
lic," and to re-enact the same with amendments,
and to legalize acts of Comptrollers Leonard and
Woolford, so far as they appertain to notaries pub-
lic of the city of Baltimore.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That section twenty-five of article thirty-eight of the Code of Public General Laws,	Repealed and
title " Fees of Officers," sub-title "Notaries Public,"	re-enacted.
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
so as to read as follows :
SEC. 25. The three last preceding sections shall	Shall not ap-
not apply to "notaries" in any of the counties unless	ply.
the fees on protests in any one year shall exceed the
sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, nor to " no-
taries" in the city of Baltimore unless the fees on	Unless the
protests in any one year shall exceed the sum of five	fees.
hundred dollars ; and whenever the fees as aforesaid
shall exceed in any of the counties the sum of three
hundred and fifty dollars, or shall exceed in the city
of Baltimore the sum of five hundred dollars, one-	Surplus shall
half of the surplus shall be paid to the Treasurer of	be paid.
the State.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the acts of Comp- trollers Leonard and Woolford, in allowing the " no-	ActsofComp- trailers rati-
taries public" of the city of Baltimore to retain five	fied.
hundred dollars per annum before accounting for
the one-half the fees to the State, under their con-
struction of the act of eighteen hundred and sixty-
eight, not repealing the act of eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, so far as it appertained to "notaries pub-
lic" of the city of Baltimore, be and are hereby
ratified.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall	In force.
take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved March 27, 1878.