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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 418.

AN ACT for the relief of John Henry Noble, Col-

lector of State and County Taxes in election dis-

tricts numbers two and twelve of Dorchester

county, for the years eighteen hundred and

seventy-four and eighteen hundred and seventy-

five, and his sureties.

Whereas it has been represented to this General

Assembly that on the night of the nineteenth day of

March, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-

seven, a certain John Henry Noble, Collector of

Preamble.

State and County Taxes in election districts num-

bers two and twelve of Dorchester county, for the
years eighteen hundred and seventy-four and eighteen
hundred and seventy-five, was waylaid and robbed of

the amount of seventeen hundred dollars of moneys

collected by him on account of State and county

taxes; and

Whereas in pursuance of law judgments have been
entered in the Circuit Court for Dorchester county

against the said Collector and the sureties on his

bonds, in favor of the State of Maryland for the use

of the County Commissioners of Dorchester county,

Preamble.

for the amount of moneys due and in arrear from

said Collector to said County Commissioners of Dor-

chester county, in which judgments is included the

said amount of seventeen hundred dollars, so as

aforesaid represented to have been forcibly taken

from the person of the said Collector ; therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the Comptroller of the Treasury

be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to

settle with said Collector the State of Maryland's

proportionate share of the said sum of seventeen

Discharge

hundred dollars, and to discharge and release the

and release
from claim.

said John Henry Noble, and each and all of his sure-
ties, from all claim or demand for or on account of

the same, if and when upon investigation by the
County Commissioners of Dorchester county, as pro-

vided in the following section, they shall find that