1328 TITLES OF LAWS.

No. 241. An act to add an additional section to article 75 of the Code
of Public General Laws, title "Pleadings, Practice and Process of
Law," sub-title "Cases by Consent," to come after section 54, and
to be designated as section 54 A ; and to authorize the "next
friend" bringing suits for infants to compromise said suits, and in
the absence of the parent's consent to said compromise to empower

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the Orphans' Court to authorize a settlement of the suit ..........

No. 242. An act to authorize the Mayor and Council of Rockville to
issue bonds to an amount not exceeding ten thousand five hundred
dollars, to pay certain certificates of fndebtedness heretofore issued
by said Mayor and Council, and the cost of erecting a plant to

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supply the town of Rockville with electric lights..............

No. 243. An act to authorize the County Commissioners of Caroline
county to provide by rules and regulations, premiums for the resi-
dents of Caroline county who will equip their vehicles with wide

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tires...................................... .. ........ ..........

No. 244. An act to appropriate a sum of money to pay the claim of
Hurlbutt and Hurlbutt f or curtains furnished in the Speaker's room

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of the House of Delegates in 1896...............................

No. 24C. An act to add two new sections to article 56 of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "License," to follow section 81, and to

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be designated as section 81 A and 8d B ............................

No. 248. An act authorizing and directing the County Commissioners
of Washington county, in their discretion, to levy and collect an-
nually in perpetuity a sum of money in aid of the maintenance of
a free library to be established in the town of Hagerstown, in said

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county..... ................................ ..................

No. 249. An act to authorize the legal and qualified voters of Poco-
moke City, in Worcester county, State of Maryland, to decide by
ballot whether or not town coupon bonds, not exceeding the
amount of thirty thousand dollars, shall be issued by said town for
the purpose of providing a water supply, sewerage system and

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electric lights for said town..................... ........ ......
No. 250. An act to appropriate a sum of money to pay the claim of
Sanford and Brooks for making repairs to the State wharves in

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Baltimore city under the direction of the Board of Public Works...
No. 251. An act to declare the sanction of the General Assembly of
Maryland to the bequest of Jeremiah Rinehart, late of Carroll
county, deceased, to the trustees of Emanuel's (or commonly called
Baust s) Church, near Tyrone, in the county of Carroll, State of

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Maryland................... ....................................
No. 252. An act to repeal and re-enact with amendment section four
of chapter one hundred and two of the acts of eighteen hundred

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and ninety-six ........................................ .........
No. 258. An act to add a new section to article 3 of the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws, title "Baltimore County," sub-title "County Com-
missioners," to follow section 36 and to be designated as section

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36 A, providing for the destruction of Canada Thistle ...........
No. 254. An act to repeal and re-enact with amendments section
forty-six of article 16 of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-

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land, title "Chancery." ...........................................
No. 255. An act to repeal section one hundred and thirty-two of
article seventy-five of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land, title "Pleading, Practice and Process at Law," and to re-enact

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the same with amendments ... ............... ..................

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