148 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

		Chapter 106.
		AN ACT to authorize and empower the adjutant
		general of the state, by and with the advice of the
		governor, to pay the Garrett Guards the sum of
		one hundred and eighty-five dollars, for services
		performed in the recapture and at the execution of
		John Smith, at Oakland, on the sixteenth day of
		November, 1883.
		SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
		of Maryland, That the adjutant general of the state
		is hereby authorized and empowered, by and with the
		advice of the governor, to pay the Garrett Guards the
		sum of one hundred and eighty-five dollars, for ser-
		vices performed in the recapture and at the execution
	Pay for ser-	of John Smith, sentenced by the circuit court for Gar-
	vices perform-	rett county to be hanged, for the murder of Josiah
	ed.	Harden, and executed on the sixteenth day of Novem-
		ber, eighteen hundred and eighty-three; and the adju-
		tant general, by and with the advice of the governor,
		is hereby authorized and directed to pay said sum out
		of the appropriation for the support of militia for
		eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to Captain E. H.
		Wardwell, of said company.
		SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
	Effective.	effect from the date of its passage.
		Approved March 20, 1884.