ROBERT M. MCLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the comptroller be and he is

hereby directed to draw his warrant upon the treasu-

Comptroller to
draw warrant.

rer, for forty-four dollars and sixteen cents, to pay

Henry C. Hutchens for money paid by him in error

into the treasury of this state as collector aforesaid.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 399.

AN ACT to add additional sections to the act of

eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, chapter ninety,

incorporating the town of New Market, in Fred-

erick county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the following sections be added

to the act of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight

Sections added.

chapter ninety, incorporating the town of New

Market, Frederick county, to follow section eighteen

of said act, and to be styled section eighteen A. and

section eighteen B., as follows :

SEC. 18 A. And be it enacted, That the said com-

missioners are hereby authorized and empowered to

build and maintain a lock-up in which offenders may

Build and main-
tain lock-up.

be confined, and to levy a tax sufficient to build and

maintain said lock-up, on the assessable property of

said incorporated town of New Market.

SEC. 19. B. And be it enacted, That the authorities

of said corporation may commit offenders against the

ordinance of said corporation to the county jail, to be

kept at the expense of the county for a term not

exceeding thirty days, provided that all vagrants,

vagabonds, beggars and other idle disorderly persons

Commit offend-

found loitering in said town, who follow no trade or

ers.

occupation, and have no visible means of support, if

apprehended under ordinance of said corporation, shall

be committed only to the almshouse of Frederick

county, there to be kept at hard labor for a term not

exceeding three months, according to the term of

commitment.

Approved April 8, 1884.