FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 172.

AN ACT to repeal Section eight of Article nineteen of the
Code of Public General Laws, title "Comptroller," and
Chapter two hundred and ninety-nine of the Acts of Assem-
bly of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and to re-enact the
same with amendments.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section eight of article nineteen of the Code
of Public General Laws, title " Comptroller," and chapter two
hundred and ninety- nine of the Acts of Assembly of eighteen
hundred and ninety-two, be and the same are hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments, to read as follows :

Repeal.

He may employ a clerk whose compensation shall be
eighteen hundred dollars per annum, two assistant clerks whose
compensation shall be twelve hundred dollars each per annum.

Pay of clerks.

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

Approved March 31st, 1894.

Effective.

CHAPTER 173.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Section
167 of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
" City of Baltimore," sub-title " Courts."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section 167 of article 4 of the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws, title " City of Baltimore," sub-title " Courts,"
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to
read as follows :

167. In any suit, when the' cause of action is a contract,
whether in writing or not, or whether expressed or implied,
the plaintiff, if affidavit or affirmation be made, as hereinafter
stated, shall be entitled to judgment, to be entered by the
court or the clerk thereof, on motion, in writing, at any time
after fifteen days frem the return day to which the defendant
shall have been summoned, although the defendant may have

Repeal.