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equity demands the release of the said Collector
from the responsibilities for said loss, and to direct
the State's Attorney for Dorchester county to enter
a release upon his and their bond for the amount of
said sum of seventeen hundred dollars belonging to
the State ; and in settlement with the said Collector,
the Comptroller, with regard to and upon the condi-
tions aforesaid, is hereby authorized and directed to
allow him a deduction of said proportionate share in
accordance with the provisions of this act.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County Com-
missioners of Dorchester county be and they are
hereby authorized and empowered to release the said
John Henry Noble, collector as aforesaid, and each
and all of his said sureties, from the payment of the
remainder of said sum of seventeen hundred dollars,
upon such proof of said loss, and upon such equitable
basis as to them shall seem proper and right, after investigation into the circumstances attending the	Investigate circumst'nces
loss, and to discharge him and them from all claim
or demand for, or on account of the same; and they
are likewise authorized to cause a release of such
sum to be entered on the judgments obtained as
aforesaid for their use against the said collector and
his sureties ; and said releases, if made, shall in each
case be entered so as to bear interest on the same
from the said nineteenth day of March, in the year
eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force.
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 419.
AN ACT to incorporate the Agricultural and Me-
chanical Association of Wicomico county.
Whereas a number of persons have formed an as- sociation for the advancement of agricultural and	Preamble
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