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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 239.

AN ACT to appropriate a sun) of money to pay the

Electors of President and Vice-President of the

United States, in and for the State of Maryland,

their officers and attendants.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the sum of five hundred dollars,

or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the

Per diem.

same is hereby appropriated to pay the per diem and

mileage of the Electors of President and V ice-President

of the United States, in and for the State of Mary-

land, their officers and attendants.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the comptroller of

the treasury is hereby directed to issue his warrant on

the treasurer, upon the certificate of the president and

Coimptroller to

secretary of the electoral college, which assembles in

issue warrant.

the city of Annapolis on the third day of December,

eighteen hundred and eighty-four, for such sum as

may be due the several electors aforesaid, their officers

and attendants.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 240.

AN ACT to make valid and effectual, and legalize

the official acts and proceedings of Richard T.

Browning, a justice of the peace in district number

six, Garrett county, Maryland.

WHEREAS Richard T. Browning, of Garrett county,

Maryland, by the governor of this state, was ap-

pointed and commissioned a justice of the peace on

the seventeenth day of April, eighteen hundred and

Preamble.

eighty-two, as his own successor, in election district

number six, and having failed to qualify as such, con-

tinued to act as a justice of the peace after the expira-

tion of his term of office, which expired on the first

day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; and