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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Passed May
16, 1853.
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CHAPTER 215.
AN ACT granting to Mrs. Elizabeth Sumwalt a sum of
money paid by her late husband as a tax for his commission
as Lumber Inspector.
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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, Andrew Sumwalt was appointed
an Inspector
of Lumber in May, eighteen hundred and fifty-two,
and paid to the State as a tax on his commission,
the sum of fifty dollars, and died without having entered
on the discharge of his duties, and it appearing reasonable
and proper that said tax should be refunded;
Now therefore,
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Authority to
pay.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Treasurer upon the warrant of
the Comptroller, be and he is hereby directed to pay to
Mrs. Elizabeth Sumwalt, widow of Andrew Sumwalt,
late Inspector of lumber in the city of Baltimore, the
sum of fifty dollars, that being the amount paid tot eh
State by her late husband as a tax on his commission.
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In force.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
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Passed May
16, 1853.
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CHAPTER 216.
AN ACT to amend the charter of the National Mining
Company.
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Division of
shares.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the capital stock of the National
Mining company shall be divided into shares of five dollars
each.
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Repealed.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That so much of the
second section of the act incorporating the National
Mining company, passed May, eighteen hundred and
fifty-two, chapter three hundred and twenty-seven, as
provides that the capital stock of said company shall be
divided into shares of fifteen dollars each, and so much
of the fifth section of said act as provides that the
amount invested in any one mine of said company
shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand
dollars, be and the same is hereby repealed.
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