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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

this act, in order to verify the correctness of the
annual report required by law to be made to him.
SUB-SECTION "G." That any organization, as
described in section thirty-two of this article,
doing business upon the industrial or weekly-

Shall require
bond.

payment plan, whether of this or other states or
districts, shall require from each of its agents or
collectors in this state a good and sufficient bond
for not less than fifty dollars, and for failure to
do so shall be liable to the penalty prescribed
in section thirty-six of this article, and for all
damage the public may have sustained by such
negligence ; provided, that the informant shall
receive one-half of the fine imposed in any con-
viction under this section.

Repealed.

SUB-SECTION "H." That all laws or parts of
laws in conflict with the provisions of this act
are hereby repealed.

Approved April 5, 1888.

Chapter 425.

AN ACT to pay to Elizabeth C. Murdock, ad-
ministratrix of William Murdock, deceased, a
sum of money due by the State of Maryland to
him as assistant keeper of the state house
and record office furnaces, at Annapolis.
WHEREAS the books of the comptroller's office

Preamble.

show that William Murdock held the position of
assistant keeper of the state house and record
office furnaces, at Annapolis, during the years
eighteen hundred and eighty-two, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-three, eighteen hundred and
eighty-four and eighteen hundred and eighty-
five ; that the general appropriation bills for
those years contained, each of them, an appropria-
tion of six hundred dollars as the compensation
for such assistant keeper, during those years re-
spectively ; that the usage in the comptroller's
office for many years, had been to pay the em-
ployes about the state house by the month, and
that said assistant keeper was paid under said