FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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88 J. The certificate of the comptroller, under the seal of his
office, shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of bonus
due as aforesaid, to entitle the State to judgment for said
bonus and costs of suit.

Certificate of
comptroller.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same
are hereby repealed; provided, however, that no corporation
incorporated prior to the date of the passage of this act shall
in any manner by this act be relieved or released from the
payment of any bonus now due and owing by it or which shall

Repeal.

become due and payable by it prior to the date of the passage
of this act, under the provisions of chapter tive hundred and
thirty-six of the acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
the year eighteen hundred and ninety, excepting, nevertheless,
such classes of corporations as will be exempt from the opera-
tion of this act, which said classes of corporations heretofore
formed shall be exempt from the operation of this act in like
manner as such classes of corporations hereafter to be formed.

Proviso.

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

Approved March 21st, 1894.

Effective

CHAPTER 115.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
one hundred and fifty-eight of Article twenty-two, Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title " Washington
County," sub-title " Hagerstown," and to add an additional
section to said Article twenty-two, Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title " Washington County," sub-title
"Hagerstown," to be known as Section two hundred and
fifteen A, and to follow Section two hundred and fifteen of
said Article twenty-two, Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section one hundred and fifty-eight of article
twenty-two of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,

Repeal,