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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

or jury, or may of its own motion issue process
for the production of such person, witness, paper,
document or thing, and may adjourn or postpone
the trial or hearing, or name a day for the further
trial or hearing if the trial has begun, or if a
hearing shall already have been had, in order
that such person, witness, paper, document or
thing may attend or be produced, upon such con-
ditions in every case as to time, notice, cost and
security, as the court may deem proper. .

Effective.

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

Approved April 5, 1888.

Chapter 530

AN ACT to authorize the comptroller of the
treasury to strike from the books of his office
sundry amounts which still stand charged to
the collectors of state taxes for Baltimore city
for the years from eighteen hundred and
forty-eight to eighteen hundred and sixty-
seven inclusive, and to discontinue the further
publication of said amounts in the comptrol-
ler's report.

WHEREAS it appears from table number fifteen,
of the comptroller's report for the fiscal year
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, sundry

Preamble.

balances of state taxes are still charged upon
the books of the comptroller's office to the col-
lectors of state taxes for the city of Baltimore,
for the years from eighteen hundred and forty-
eight to eighteen hundred and sixty-seven
inclusive ; and, whereas no payments have been
received from the collectors of state taxes in
the city of Baltimore on account of said bal-
ances for many years, and the same are con-
sidered as utterly worthless; and, whereas the
comptroller of the treasury has requested the
state's attorney for Baltimore city to inquire
into and report upon said cases; and, whereas