ELI HU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
27 A. Upon all agreed statements of facts, all

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special cases stated, and all special verdicts, the
court shall be at liberty to draw all inferences of
facts or law that court or jury could have drawn
from the facts so agreed or stated as if the same
had been offered in evidence upon a trial before
the court or before the court and a jury.

May draw in-
ferences.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 5, 1888.

Chapter 318.

AN ACT to refund to Sarah A. Laughlin, widow
of the late John S. Laughlin and late register
of wills of Garrett county, the sum of thirty
dollars for money paid by him into the state
treasury for his commission as such register
in the month of November, eighteen hundred
and eighty-five.
WHEREAS at the November election held in

Effective.

the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, the
said John S. Laughlin was duly elected the
register of wills of Garrett county, and imme-
diately thereafter he was compelled to pay into
the state treasury the sum of thirty dollars, as
required by law before he could be commis-
sioned as such officer ; and whereas the said
John S. Laughlin departed this life on or about
the tenth of March, eighteen hundred and
eighty-six, and before he could receive any of
the emoluments of said office, except for the
short space of three months ; and whereas the
said decedent left a widow and several small
children in almost indigent circumstances, and
it seems but just that said sum of money should
be refunded to said widow ; therefore,

Preamble,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the treasurer be and
is hereby directed and required, upon the war-
rant of the comptroller, to pay to Sarah A.

Directed to
pay.