LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Landlord and
Tenant," to be designated as section 27, as follows:
27. The right of a tenant to remove fixtures erected by him

Additional
section.

under one demise or term shall not be lost or in any manner
impaired by reason of his acceptance of a new lease of the
same premises without any intermediate surrender of posses-
sion.
Approved March 29, 1898.

CHAPTER 94.

AN ACT to refund to John N. Layman, late collector of
State taxes for the third district of Allegany county, a sum
of money erroneously paid by him into the State Treasury.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Right of
tenant.

land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is hereby
authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon the Treas-
urer of this State in favor of John N. Layman, late collector
of State taxes for the third district of Allegany county, for
the sum of twenty-one dollars and thirty-two cents, being the
amount overpaid by him into the State treasury for the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, the same having received
the recommendation of the treasury officials.

Appropria-
tion.

SFO. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved March 28, 1898.

CHAPTER 95.

AN ACT to authorize the Clerk of the Circuit Court of St.
Mary's County to make out general indices to the Chattel
Records in his office, and providing for paying for same.

Effective.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the clerk of the Circuit Court for St. Mary's
county be and he is hereby authorized and required to make
out in a full and legible handwriting general indices to the
chattel records in his office, commencing with the year eighteen
hundred and seventy-eight to the passage of this Act, and he
shall be allowed therefor the same compensation as is now
allowed for making alphabetical lists of transfers of property
to be paid for by the County Commissioners for St. Mary's
county on the certificate of the chief justice or one of the
associated justices of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, that said
work and labor has been properly performed.

General In-
dices to be
made.