TITLES OF LAWS.

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No. 244. An act to repeal and re-enact, with corrections and amendments
sections 1 and 2 of chapter 489 of the laws passed by the General
Assembly of Maryland, session of 1890, the same being "an act to in-
corporate the Washington and Marlboro' Electric Railway Company of
Prince George's county and to declare its rights, powers, privileges

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and franchises." ............................. .......................
No. 246. An act to repeal section two hundred and thirty of articlfe
ninety-three of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Testamentary
Law," sub-title "Orphans' Court," and to re-enact the same with an
amendment, extending the jurisdiction of Orphans' Courts to the

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estates of persons absent and unheard of for above seven years........
No. 247. An act to appropriate a certain sum of money to pay the claim
of The Campbell and Zell Company of Baltimore city, for work done
at the State House at Annapolis, consisting of furnishing, delivering
and erecting complete, two Zell improved water-tube safety boilers of
seventy horse power each, placed under the Comptroller's office, and fol-
doing all brickwork and masonry therefor, and for furnishing all the

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materials, piping etc., and connections used therewith..................
No. 248. An act to amend an act of the General Assembly of Maryland,
passed at the January session, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, chap-
ter two hundred and twenty-seven, entitled "an act to incorporate the
Baltimore and Loreley Railway Company," so that the corporate name

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ville and Bel Air Electric Railway Company." ........................
No. 249. An act to protect reporters and other newspaper men from
being compelled ta disclose the source of any news or information pro-
cured for publication in any legal or legislative proceedings in the

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State of Maryland....................................................
No. 250. An act to authorize and empower the Board of County School
Commissioners of Cecil county to grant unto Martha Biddle of said
county, an allowance out of the public school funds, not exceeding ten

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dollars per month, for her life.........................................
No. 251. An act to appropriate a sum of money to pay the claim of Wm.
J. C. Dulany Company, for stationery furnished the State library,
Court of Appeals, Executive Department and Legislative Department
of the State of Maryland, from Januarv 10, 1896, to March 17, 1896,

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inclusive ................................... ................. .....
No. 253. An act to prohibit the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors or
lager beer within half a mile of the Junction of Gittings Avenue and

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Belona Avenue in Baltimore county...................................
No. 253. An act to confirm a deed of conveyance dated the 16th day of
July, 1869, recorded among the land records of Baltimore city, in Liber
G. R., No. 439, folio 94, &c., from the Trustees of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church in Caroline Street Station of Baltimore city, to James

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Shuter...............................................................
No. 254. An act to repeal section one hundred and seventy-nine ol
article sixteen, of the Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Mont-
gomery County," sub-title "Rockville," and re-enact the same with

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amendments..........................................................
No. 255. An a,ct to repeal section 143 of article 93 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, entitled "Testamentary Law," sub-title

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"Distribution," and to re-enact the same so as to read as follow :.......
No. 256. An act to appropriate a portion of the fines and forfeitures col-
lected in Washington county to the purchase of law books for the

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library attached to the Circuit Court for said county...................

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