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LAWS OF MARYLAND

SUB-SECTION 6. This act and chapter four hun-

dred and sixty-two of the acts of eighteen hundred

Given in

and seventy-eight shall, from time to time, be given

charge grand

in charge by the Circuit Court, and their several

jury.

provisions be carefully explained to the grand jury

of said county.

SUB SECTION 7. The court or justice trying any

case under chapter four hundred and sixty-two

aforesaid, or under this act, shall award one-half of

the fine imposed to the officer or informer through

Fine— how

whom the conviction is secured, and such court or

disposed of.

justice shall, immediately after the conviction in any

case, pass an order determining whether any person

by his exertions should be awarded any part of the

said fine, and how much shall be paid to each one,

the aggregate not, to exceed one-half, and such order

shall be final.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall

Effective.

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 397.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Coun-

cil of Cumberland to purchase ground and im-

provements in said city to be conveyed to

Thomas H. Paul and J. T. H. Paul for the pur-

pose of erecting thereon a Locomotive and

Machine Works, and to provide for paying the

purchase money therefor by the issue and sale

of bonds.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council

of Cumberland be and they are hereby authorized

Authorized
and empower-

and empowered to purchase, within the limits of

ed to purchase

said city, any ground not exceeding three acres in

quantity, for the purpose of conveying the same

to Thomas H. Paul and J. T. H. Paul, upon con-

dition that said Thomas H. Paul and J. T. H.

Paul shall, within one year after said conveyance,