LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 402.

AN ACT to authorize the Comity Commissioners of Balti-
more County to pay claims of William H. Ruby, Longnecker
Brothers and the Baltimore County Democrat Printing and
Publishing Company of Baltimore County, for printing and
publishing notices of tax sales and orders nisi in matters of
tax sales.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Baltimore
county be and they are hereby authorized, empowered and

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directed to pay to the following persons the following amounts
for printing and publishing notices of tax sales and orders
nisi in matters of tax sales: To William R. Ruby, the sum of
thirteen hundred and ten dollars and fifty cents ; to John B.
Longnecker and Henry C. Longnecker, co-partners, trading
under the firm name of Longnecker Brothers, the sum of four-
teen hundred and fifteen dollars ; to the Baltimore County
Democrat Printing and Publishing Company of Baltimore
county, the sum of four hundred and sixty -seven dollars.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the County Commission-

Pay a sum of
money.

ers of Baltimore county be and they are hereby authorized,
empowered and directed to levy upon the assessable property
of Baltimore county the said sums of money, or such sums as
may be necessary to pay said claims.

Levy to be
made.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 9, 1898.

CHAPTER 403.
AN ACT to definitely locate the Waters of Talbot County
lying between the mainland of said county and Poplar
Island, to be used for the taking and catching oysters with
tongs worked exclusively by hand.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of Mary-

Effective.

land, That the following waters of Talbot county are hereby,
declared as to be used only for taking and catching oysters with
tongs worked exclusively by hand, namely, by a straight line
drawn from Paw-Paw point, on Tilghman's Island, to the south-
westernmost point of Poplar Island, and by a straight line from
Lowe's point, on the mainland, to the end of North point, on
Poplar Island, and all the water's of Talbot county within said

Taking and
catching
oysters
with tongs.