JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 597

of the trial aforesaid : the said sum of one hun-
dred and eighty-eight dollars to be paid to the
said sheriff, to be divided equally among said per-	Sum to be di-
sons; and the County Commissioners of Talbot	vided.
county are hereby authorized to levy upon the
taxable property of said county, as other taxes
are levied, a sum sufficient to pay said sums.
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 335.
AN ACT appropriating certain sums of money
for professional services rendered the State of
Maryland by Thomas Donaldson and James
Revell.
Whereas Thomas Donaldson and James Revell,
at the instance and by direction of the Comptroller
of the Treasury, rendered certain professional ser-
vices to the State of Maryland, in the mandamus
case of the Hagerstown Academy, (of which the
Hon. A. K. Syester, then Attorney-General, was
President,) against the Comptroller of the Treas-
ury, for the payment of six hundred dollars, annu-	Preamble.
ally, from the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight
to eighteen hundred and seventy-one, making the
sum of thirteen thousand eight hundred dollars,
claimed by said Academy, under resolutions of the
General Assembly of Mainland of eighteen hun-
dred and eleven, number forty-six, and of eighteen
hundred and forty-five, number seven, and
Whereas the said James Revell rendered certain
other professional services to said State of Mary-	Preamble.
land, by direction of the Comptroller, in the case
of the State versus D. R. Magruder, President of