WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 61.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Coun-

cil of Baltimore to pass the necessary ordinances

and to issue bonds for the extension of Patterson

Park.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the Mayor and City Coun-

cil of Baltimore be and they are hereby authorized

Pass necessary

and empowered to pass the necessary ordinances

ordinances.

and to issue the bonds of said city to an amount not

exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, for the

extension of Patterson Park.

Approved March 21, 1882.

Chapter 63.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Clerk of

the County Commissioners of Cecil county to ad-

minister an oath or affirmation in certain cases.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the Clerk of the County

Commissioners of Cecil county is hereby authorized

and empowered to administer an oath or affirmation

Empowered to

to any person or persons filing in the office of said

administer
oath.

commissioners a claim against said county, or other

paper to which an affidavit may be required by law

or by order of said commissioners, to any person or

persons who are to be examined as witnesses in any

matter before said commissioners, and in all other

cases in which he may be required, in the discharge

of his duties as clerk to said commissioners, to ad-

administer an oath or affirmation, and for such ad-

ditional service no additional compensation shall be

allowed said clerk.

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

Effective.

take effect from and after the date of its passage.

Approved March 21, 1882.

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