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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 400.

AN ACT to repeal the act of eighteen hundred and

sixty-eight, chapter sixty-one, entitled " An act to

add an additional section to the Code of Public

General Laws, article sixty-nine, entitled officers,' "

and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That chapter sixty-one of the acts of

eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled " An act to

Repealed and

add an additional section to the Code of Public

rc-enacted.

General Laws, article sixty-nine, entitled officers,'' '

be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so

as to read as follows, and to be numbered as section

twelve of said article.

12. Whenever the General Assembly shall meet, it

shall not be necessary for any officer of the preced-

Officers to be

ing general assembly to be present, except the chief

present.

clerk, reading clerk and door-keeper of the House of

Delegates and the secretary and dook-keeper of the

Senate; and in case of the death or inability to attend

of either the chief clerk of the House of Delegates, or

Who act in
absence.

secretary of the Senate, the journal clerk shall act in

his place; and in the case of the death or absence of

the door-keeper, his assistant shall act in his stead, and

they shall be paid five days' per diem and mileage, at

the rate of ten cents per mile, for such attendance ;

Forbidden.

and the payment of any other officer of a preceding

general assembly than those herein enumerated is

hereby forbidden.

Approved April 8, 1884.