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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

more, for offenses punishable by confinement therein,

or committed by any judge, court, justice of the peace,

or other lawful authority having jurisdiction to com-

mit such person or persons to said jail, either as a

punishment for the violation of any law or ordinance,

or under or by virtue of any law or ordinance, or for

Prisoners in
jail put to labor

failure to pay any fine or costs imposed upon such
person or persons by any such judge, court, justice of

the peace, or other lawful authority, shall be kept by

the visitors of said jail, at hard labor, in some useful

employment. The said visitors of the jail shall frame

such regulations as shall be necessary to the industry,

quiet and discipline of such persons, and shall have

them kept separate from persons in confinement

awaiting trial or for other causes.

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

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 370.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to reimburse

Nancy Smith, of Alleghany county, for money

erroneously paid into the State Treasury.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the comptroller of the treasury

be and he is hereby authorized and directed to draw

his warrant on the treasurer in favor of Nancy Smith,

of Alleghany county, for the sum of one hundred and

Draw warrant.

thirty dollars, for money erroneously paid for licenses

for the years eighteen hundred and seventy-eight

to eighteen hundred and eighty-one inclusive, this

claim being recommended by the Governor of the

state as required by law.

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

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.