FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 505.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to pay Uriah F.
Shockley, late collector of State taxes for Worcester County,
the amount overpaid by him into the Treasury.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he
is hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon the
Treasurer to pay Uriah F. Shockley, late collector of State
taxes for Worcester county, the sum of twenty-six dollars and
fifty-three cents, being the amount overpaid by the said Uriah
F. Shockley into the treasury, as collector of State taxes for
Worcester county, for the years eighteen hundred and eighty-
eight and eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as certified by
the Comptroller and Treasurer, the refunding thereof having
received the recommendation of said officers.

Appropria-
tion.

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

Approved April 6th, 1894.

CHAPTER 506.

AN ACT to protect the pipe or water main of the Cambridge
Water Company across Cambridge Creek, in Dorchester
County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Effective.

Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for any master, owner
or person in charge of any boat, canoe or vessel, or for any
other person, to cast or throw overboard any anchor, ballast.
scrape, dredge or other heavy instrument within ten feet on
either side of the pipe or water main of the Cambridge Water
Company across Cambridge creek in Dorchester county; pro-
vided, that the said Cambridge Water Company shall keep
the line of said pipe marked or buoyed, by placing at least
three buoys thereupon.

Injuring
water pipe.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person who shall vio-
late any of the provisions of the preceding section or who
shall wilfully, maliciously or negligently destroy or injure said
water pipe, or who shall remove, displace or injure any of said
buoys, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon

Penalty.