LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

203

authorized and directed, upon the warrant of the Comptroller,
to pay to Caleb Film ore Cross, late Collector of State Taxes
in the second collection district of Howard county, the sum oi
forty-nine dollars and seventy-six cents, erroneously paid into
the treasury for State taxes for the years 1890 and 1891 inclu-
sive, with interest, the same having been recommended by the
officers of the State treasury.

Approprla-
tion.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved March 29, 1898.

%

CHAPTER 115.

AN ACT to prohibit the firing of guns, cat rifles, pistols or
any explosive instrument of metal, by persons under twenty-
one years of age, within one mile in any direction of the
Library Hall in Catonsville, Baltimore County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall be unlawful for any person under the age

Effective.

of twenty-one years to fire a gun, cat rifle, pistol, or any ex-
plosive instrument of metal, within one mile in any direction
of the Library Hall in Catonsville, Baltimore county, and any
person under said age of twenty-one years, violating this Act,
shall upon conviction before the Circuit Court, or any justice
of the peace for said county, be fined a sum not less than one
dollar nor more than ten dollars, or be imprisoned in the
county jail for not less than five days nor more than thirty
days, or be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the
court or justice of the peace.

Unlawful to
are gun, cat
rifle, etc.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.
Approved March 29, 1898.

CHAPTER 116.
AN ACT to authorize and require the County Commission-
ers of Washington County to refund to Joseph Kimler, of
Smithsburg, a sum of money erroneously paid as taxes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Washington
county be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to

Effective.