ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Chapter 74.

AN ACT adopting and legalizing the Code of
Public General Laws and the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, prepared by John
Prentis Poe in pursuance of the act of eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-six, chapter three
hundred and two, entitled " An act to provide
for the preparation of a Code of Public Gen-
eral and Public Local Laws of Maryland,"
and declaring the same to be the Code of Pub-
lie General Laws and Public Local Laws of
this state ; and also directing the codification
of the public acts of the present session by
said John Prentis Poe, and the incorporation
thereof, in said code, in a reprint thereof to be
made by him, and to provide for the payment
thereof, and for the sale and disposal by the
state librarian of copies of the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-

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sembly of Maryland, That the Code of Public
General Laws of this state, prepared by John
Prentis Poe and submitted to this general as-
sembly by him, in pursuance of the act of eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-six, chapter three hun-
dred and two, entitled "An act to provide for
the preparation of a Code of Public General and
Public Local Laws of Maryland," and examined,
approved and pronounced complete and correct
by John W. Crisfield, Julian J. Alexander and
William. A. Fisher, the commission appointed
by the court of appeals as authorized by the
provisions of the second section of the said act
of eighteen hundred and eighty-six, chapter
three hundred and two, to examine and report
upon the same to this general assembly, and the
Code of Public Local Laws of this state, pre-
pared by said John Prentis Poe, and in like
manner submitted by him to this general as-
sembly, be and the same are hereby respectively
approved, adopted and declared to be the Code
of Public General Laws and Code of Public
Local Laws of this state, respectively, in lieu of

Code ap-
proved.