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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

pealed, and that chapter three hundred and
thirty-five of the acts of eighteen hundred and
seventy-four, so far as it applies to the number
of justices of the peace f or election district num-
ber one, or fork, of Dorchester county, be and
the same is hereby repealed, and section one
hundred and twenty-one of article ten, Code of
Public Local Laws, titled, Dorchester county,

Re-enacted.

sub-titled, justice of the peace and constables, be
and the same is hereby re-enacted so as it applies
to two justices of the peace for number one, or
fork district, of Dorchester county.

Effective

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

Approved February 15, 1888.

Chapter 23.

AN ACT to appropriate the sum of one thousand
five hundred and forty-one dollars and
seventy-nine cents out of the public school
funds to reimburse Garrett county for an in-
stallment of the state school tax withheld
from said county in the year eighteen hundred
and eighty-seven; and, also, to authorize and
direct the comptroller to apportion to said
county the installment known as the "April
installment of the state school tax for the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight," said
installment being the apportionment made to
said Garrett county on the fifteenth day of
March in each year.

WHEREAS, an installment of the state school

Preamble.

tax, amounting to the sum of one thousand five-
hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy-nine
cents was withheld from Garrett county in the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and
said county not having been able to keep its
schools open seven and a-half months in the