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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

hereby repealed, and the following enacted in lieu

thereof:

FIRST. The mayor and city council of Baltimore,

be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to

appropriate a sum of money annually for the relief of

Authority to
appropriate.

disabled and superannuated firemen, and members of

the police force of Baltimore city, and for the relief

of the widows and children of firemen and of police

who may be killed in discharge of duty.

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

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 313.

AN ACT to repeal section nineteen of chapter four

hundred and sixty-nine of the acts of assembly

passed at the January session, eighteen hundred and

eighty-two, entitled "An act to repeal sections eigh-

teen and nineteen of article eighteen of the Code

of Public General Laws, title ' Clerks of Courts,' "

and re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That section nineteen of chapter four

hundred and sixty-nine of the acts of eighteen hundred

Repealed and

and eighty-two, entitled "An act to sections eighteen

re-enacted.

and nineteen of article eighteen of the Code of Pub-

lic Genera] Laws, title ' Clerks of Courts,' " be and the

same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read

as follows :

SEC. 19. If any clerk shall neglect or refuse to com-

Clerk guilty of

ply with the provisions of the three preceding sec-

misdemeanor.

tions he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall

forfeit the sum of two hundred dollars for the use of

the state; provided that, so far as the proceedings

mentioned in section eighteen are concerned, the clerk

Proviso.

shall not be required to record the same until the costs

thereof shall have been first paid; provided that this

act shall not be held to apply to Anne Arundel, How-

ard and Worcester counties.

Approved April 8, 1884.