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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Sum appropriated.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted,
That the sum of nine
hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated from
the State Treasury, for the purchase of the third volume
of said Maryland Chancery Decisions, to be paid out of
any unappropriated money in the State Treasury.
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In force.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That this act shall take
effect from and after the date of its passage.
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Passed May
24, 1853.
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CHAPTER 264.
AN AMENDMENT to an act entitled, an act to incorporate
the Frostburg
Coal Company.
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Affairs—how
managed.
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Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland,
That the affairs of the said company, shall be
managed by a president and eight directors, instead of
a president and four directors, as provided for by the
fourth section of the said act of incorporation, who
shall be chosen, and shall serve as in the said fourth
section is provided.
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Passed May
24, 1853.
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CHAPTER 265.
AN ACT more effectually to prevent Gambling.
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Fine and
imprisonment
for violation.
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SECTION 1. Be
it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That if any person shall keep a room,
building, arbor, booth, shed, tenement, boat, float or
place to be used or occupied for gambling, or shall
knowingly permit the same to be used or occupied for
gambling, or if the owner, superintendent or agent of
any room, building, arbor, booth, shed, tenement, boat,
float or place, shall rent the same to be used or occupied
for gambling, he shall, upon conviction thereof,
be fined not less than two hundred dollars, nor more
than one thousand dollars and the costs of court, one-half
of which fine shall be paid to the informer, who
shall nevertheless be a competent witness, and the other
half shall be paid for the use of the public schools of
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