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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 259.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Chapter
three hundred and twenty-five of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January session, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-two, and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

Repeal.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That chapter three hundred and twenty-five of the acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed' at the January
session, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments.

Governor
may employ
clerical
help.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Governor is hereby authorized and empowered
to employ such clerical help as may be necessary to assist in
the Executive Department in preparing and attending to such
election business as is now, or may hereafter by law be assigned
to that department or to the Secretary of State; and the sum
of two thousand dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the
treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of such
clerical help.

Effective.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 2d, 1896.

CHAPTER 260.

AN ACT to exempt from location or appropriation for plant-
ing of shells or seed oysters upon certain kinds of bottoms
under the waters in Somerset County.

Unlawful to
appropriate
natural
bars.

SECTION 1. £ e it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall be unlawful for any person, or body corpo-
rate, to run off, stake off, survey, locate, or appropriate within
the limits of Somerset county, any natural bar or bed, or any
part thereof where oysters have grown, or do grow in sufficient
quantities to be profitable to persons who take oysters with
scrapes, dredge or tongs.