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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from and after the date of its passage.

Approved March 15, 1882.

Chapter 68.

AN ACT to pay a sum of money to Daniel J.

Saunders.

WHEREAS a vessel known as the schooner " Ann "

was arrested and her master and crew convicted of

violation of the oyster law, and the said vessel was

Preamble.

sold by proper process of law for the payment of

the fine of said master and crew, and the cost of the

case, by the sheriff of Anne Arundel county, at pub-

lic auction, at which sale Daniel J. Saunders became

the purchaser of said schooner for the sum of two

hundred and ten dollars, which was paid to the said

sheriff and by him into the Treasury of the State ;

and whereas, after said purchase, and while the pur-

chaser was repairing said schooner, having expended

in various ways a large sum of money therein, the

said schooner was seized and taken possession of by

the United States Marshal for the district of Mary-

land under libel of the said crew for wages due and

mechanics' liens, and of said master attacking the

constitutionality of said law, and claiming one

thousand dollars damages for false arrest and de-

tention of property, and to defend which suits in

the United States District Court, in which were in-

volved the constitutionality of the State law, as well

as the sovereign right of the State to make such

arrest and condemnation, the said Saunders was

compelled to employ counsel; and whereas, after

Preamble,

said seizure of said schooner by said marshal, she

being in a leaky condition because of the progress

of said repairs, and the expense of being kept in

the marshal's custody being so great, an order was

passed by said District Court requiring the marshal

to sell said schooner, and after trial of the causes in

said court the judgment of the court sustained the

constitutionality of the law, and upheld the right

of the State by dismissing said libels, and awarded