JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 837

Whereas, in adding said sum of five hundred
dollars, the amount of said assessment was errone-
ously increased from twenty-two thousand six
hundred and ninety-five dollars to the sum of j	Preamble.
thirty-three thousand one hundred and ninety-five
dollars, thus making the amount assessed on said
land, ten thousand dollars more than it should
have been; and
Whereas, the said error was not discovered by
the said Conners until the year eighteen hundred
and seventy-six, when they at once brought it to
the attention of County Commissioners of Cecil
county, whereupon the said commissioners before
the tax bills for said year were sent out, granted
an abatement on said assessment for the said error	Preamble.
in amount of ten thousand dollars, but declined,
on the ground of their having no legal authority
to refund to the said Conners the amount of the
county taxes for the years eighteen hundred and
seventy-one, eighteen hundred and seventy-two,
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-four, eighteen hundred and seven-
ty-five, or to credit them for the same, which they
had paid on account of said erroneous assessment ;
therefore —
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Cecil	Commission-
county be and they are hereby authorized and em-	ers to refund.
powered, in their discretion, to refund to Philip S.
Conner and Edward E. Conner, or to credit
them on their tax accounts for the sum of seventy
dollars for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-
one ; seventy-five dollars for the year eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-two ; seventy-five dollars for the
year eighteen hundred and seventy-three ; eighty
dollars for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-
four, and sixty dollars for the year eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-five, with the interest due on said
respective sums, being the amounts due for said
five years as county taxes paid on the erroneous
assessment of ten thousand dollars.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force.
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 5, 1878.