ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 191

	Chapter 143.
	AN ACT to make valid and legalize the official acts
	of Emil F. Droege, one of the justices of the peace
	of the State of Maryland, in and for Garrett county.
	WHEREAS Emil F. Droege was appointed and com-
	missioned a justice of the peace on the seventeenth
	day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, for
	election district number one, Garrett county, Mary-
	land; and whereas, just prior to this date, election
	district number ten was created by act of assembly,
	as contained in chapter one hundred and forty-three,
	acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and the said	Preamble.
	Droege has resided within the bounds of said district
	number ten since its formation, and has acted as a
	justice of the peace therein, although appointed a jus- tice for district number one for said county; and
	whereas some doubts have been expressed in regard to
	the legality of the official acts and proceedings of said
	Droege as a justice of the peace aforesaid, on account
	of his residing in district number ten, therefore —
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
	of Maryland, That the acts and proceedings of Emil
	F. Droege, as one of the justices of the peace of the
	State of Maryland, in and for Garrett county, during
	the period he acted as such justice for district number	Acts made valid
	one of said county, while actually residing within dis-
	trict number ten, be and the same are hereby made as
	valid, and to have the same effect and operation in
	law, as if the said Emil F. Droege had been an actual
	resident of said district number one of Garrett county,
	Maryland.
	Approved March 27, 1884.