JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 595

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this amending
act shall go into operation and have effect imme-	In force.
diately upon and after its passage, and the General
Assembly may at any time alter or repeal it.
Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 384.
AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners
of Talbot county to pay O. P. Sparks, late
Sheriff of Talbot county, for services rendered
in the enforcement of the oyster law, and to
pay certain persons therein named for their ser-
vices as special police during the trial of vio-
lators of the oyster laws, at Saint Michael's, in
Talbot county.
Whereas, in the trial of certain persons charged
with violation of the oyster law of the State, at
Saint Michael's, on the seventeenth day of April,
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, serious dis-
turbances were apprehended, the sheriff of the county was directed by the State's Attorney of	Preamble.
said county, by letter dated April fourteenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, to summon a
posse commitatus of one hundred men as a special
police, to preserve the peace during said trials;
and
Whereas said summons was duly made in obe-
dience to the orders of the State's Attorney by
said sheriff, and said citizens assembled in	Preamble.
obedience to said summons, and performed the
duties of special police required of them, and for which service they are entitled to be paid ; and
Whereas said sheriff is entitled to the usual fees	Preamble.
for serving summons in such cases, and for his at-
tendance at said trial therefore,