LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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28. If any offender shall be in default for the non payment
of any fine and costs imposed, he may be proceeded against in
a civil action in the name of the Mayor and Council of Bruns-
wick in the same manner as suits are brought to recover small
debts, and if the fine and costs shall he collected or paid, the
offender shall be immediately released from imprisonment, if
he shall have been committed to prison, whether the term of
his sentence shall have expired or not.

Recovery of
penalties.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4, 1896.

CHAPTER 381.

AN ACT to enable the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
city, Maryland, to appropriate the sum of $5,000 to the Asso-
ciation of Mexican Veterans to aid in the erection of a monu-
ment to their fallen comrades; and also to grant the use of
a public square or suitable lot of ground in the said city, to
erect thereon the said monument.

Effective.

WHEREAS, The city of Baltimore and the State of Maryland
aided and sustained the Government of the United States in
its war against Mexico in 1840, 1847 and 1848, by famishing
and equipping and organizing troops, sailors and marines for
the said war; and

Preamble.

WHEREAS, No monument or any public recognition has been
granted or made in their behalf from the city of Baltimore to
those engaged in the said war, their survivors and fallen com-
rades; and

Preamble.

WHEREAS, The survivors residing in Baltimore city and State
of Maryland of the said Mexican war have organized them-
selves into an association, and are moved by a patriotic desire
and effort to erect a monument to their fallen comrades in the
city of Baltimore, Maryland; and

Preamble.

WHEREAS, The State of Maryland by act, chapter 655, sec-
tion 37, page 1053, of the General Assembly of Maryland, 1894,
has appropriated the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) to
aid in the erection of said monument, which is wholly insuffi-
cient for said purpose; therefore,

Preamble.