EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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H. Routzahn, of Hagerstown, Washington county, State of
Maryland, and as such adopted daughter shall have the same

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rights of inheritance and distribution as to the estate of the
said William H. Routzahn as if born to the said William H.
Routzahn in lawful wedlock; and the natural parents of the
said Mary Catharine Lutz having agreed to the passage of
this Act shall be freed from all legal obligations towards
her; and that in case the said Mary Catharine Lutz inherits
property from her adopted parent upon her dying intestate,
without issue, the property thus inherited shall descend and
be distributed to the same persons who would take the same
by inheritance, and in course of distribution the same as if
she had been the child of the adopted parents in lawful

Adoption of
daughter.

wedlock; provided, however, that this Act shall not limit or
interfere with the power of disposition over such property
by gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise by said adopted
child.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 3, 1906.

CHAPTER 514.
AN ACT to authorize and direct the County Commissioners
of Washington County to levy a sum of money to refund
to Abraham K. Snyder, of said County, certain taxes
erroneously paid by him.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Washington county
be and they are hereby authorized and directed to lew for

Proviso.

the use of Abraham K. Snyder, of said county, the sum of
twelve and twenty-hundredths dollars ($12 20/100), the
amount of taxes paid erroneously by him for the year 1897.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 3, 1906.

Levy a sum of
money.