HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER 183.

AN ACT to provide for the defence and in-
demnity of Henry Lloyd, J. Frank Turner,
John S. Gittings, James I. Waddell and
Lemuel Smoot, who have been, or may be,
sued in the Courts of the United States, or
of the State of Maryland, for certain acts
alleged to have been done by them, or any
of them, as officers of the State of Maryland,
in the enforcement of an act of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, passed at January
session, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,
chapter five hundred and eighteen, entitled
an act to repeal chapter one hundred and
ninety-eight of the acts passed at the Janu-
ary session, eighteen hundred and eighty,
being an act to repeal article seventy-one of
the Code of Public General Laws, entitled
"Oysters," and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

WHEREAS by the provisions of the act of the
General Assembly of this State, passed at
January session, eighteen hundred and eighty-
four, chapter five hundred and eighteen, cer-
tain duties were imposed upon the Board of
Public Works, the Commander of the State
Fishery Force and the officers under him, for
the alleged performance of which said duties

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suit has been brought in the Circuit Court of
the United States for the District of Mary-
land, against the said Henry Lloyd, J. Frank
Turner and John S. Gittings, who, as Governor,
Comptroller and Treasurer, respectively, con-
stituted the said Board of Public Works, and
the said James I. Waddell, Commander of the
State Fishery Force, and Lemuel Smoot, Com-
mander of the State Sloop Katie Hines, and
which said act is alleged to be in violation of
the Constitution of the United States; and

Preamble.