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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 117.

Guilty of
misdemeanor

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That any person or persons
violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before
any justice of the peace of Garrett county, or before the
Circuit Court for said county, shall be fined not lees than five
dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense and
stand committed until fine and costs are paid ; one-half of said
fine to go to the informer or informers upon whose evidence
the conviction is obtained.

When
effective and
when
Inoperative.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
on the first day of November, 1902, and shall cease to be
in operation on the first day of December, 1903, (nineteen
hundred and three).
Approved March 27, 1902.

CHAPTER 117.
AN ACT to refund to sundry firms, persons, joint stock com-
panies and corporations, certain sums of money erroneously
paid into the Tieasury of the State of Maryland as taxes on
cove oysters since April 6, 1894.

WHEREAS, Under the provisions of an Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, chapter 257, section 4, of the Acts of
1884, and a subsequent Act of the General Assembly of Mary-

Preamble.

land, chapter 380 of the Acts of 1894, it was claimed by the
State of Maryland that all persons, firms, joint stock com-
panies and corporations, who use shell oysters for packing as
hermetically sealed cove oysters, as a condition upon which
they shall be permitted by the State to carry on said business,
shall render a sworn statement at the end of each mouth to the
Comptroller of the State Treasury of the number of bushels of
such oysters so used, and at the same time pay into the State
Treasury one-tenth of one per cent, per bushel for each and
every bushel of such oysters used for said purpose, to consti-
tute a fund to be called the " Oyster Packers' Fund ;" and

WHEREAS, Said chapter 257, section 4, of the Acts of 1884:,
codified as section 54 of Article 72 in the Code of 1888, was
repealed by chapter 380 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland, approved April 6, 189i, and has not been re-
enacted ; and

WHEREAS, Under said claim of the State of Maryland, the
firm of Thomas Kensett & Company erroneously paid to the
State Treasurer the sum of two hundred and ninety-two dollars
and twenty-two cents ($292.22) since April 6, 1894; and