JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 369

1. From and after the passage of this act it shall	Shall not be
not be lawful for the clerks of the Circuit Courts of	lawful.
this State to issue any license for the sale of spirit-
uous or fermented liquors or lager beer to any per-
son or body politic in this State, unless such person
or body politic shall have been recommended to said	Recom'ended
clerks by the Grand Jury, which shall have been in	to said clerks.
session at the term next preceding the first day of
May in each and every year in the county where
the applicant for such license shall reside; provided,
however, that this act or any of its provisions
shall not apply to Baltimore city, Baltimore, Prince	Shall not
George's, Allegany, Somerset, Carroll, Howard,	apply.
Washington, Wicomico, St. Mary's, Dorchester,
Anne Arundel, Frederick, Cecil, Garrett and Mont-
gomery counties.
2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this
act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 235.
AN ACT to authorize the Comptroller and Treas-
urer to adjust and settle the accounts of the State
against the Chester River Steamboat Company.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Comptroller and Treasurer
be and they are hereby authorized and empowered	Comptroller
to adjust, compromise and settle the account of the State of Maryland against the Chester River Steam- boat Company up to the first day of January, eigh-	and Trea'urer authorized to settle account
teen hundred and seventy-eight, and to give to said
company, in settlement, such credits as they may
deem to be just and right.
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