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stroyed by the Clerk of the Board of County Com-
missioners in their presence, and a memorandum of
the fact and of their number and amount be made
on the record of proceedings of said commissioners ;
and when any judgment or mortgage shall be entered or executed as aforesaid, it shall be entered or exe-
cuted in the corporate name of said Board of Com-
missioners, and the Treasurer of the County shall
make the necessary affidavit in case of an invest-
ment on mortgage; the investments in each case
either to remain at interest, or the interest to be col-
lected and reinvested as the commissioners may find
expedient.
SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force.
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 371.

AN ACT to amend the act passed at this present
session of the General Assembly of Maryland, en-
titled "An act to repeal the act of January ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, chapter
one hundred and seventy-three, entitled 'An act
regulating the working and proper ventilation of

coal mines in Allegany and Garrett counties, and
providing for the appointment of an inspector of
said mines,'" and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments, by adding an additional section thereto, to
be numbered section fifteen and a-half.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the act passed at this present
session of the General Assembly of Maryland, en-
titled " An act to repeal the act of January session,