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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is hereby

Appropria-
tion.

authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer
of this State, to pay to James H. Lockerman, late collector of
State and county taxes for Worcester county for the years 1890
and 1891, the sum of thirty seven dollars and twenty-one cents
($37.21,) the amount erroneously paid by him as late collector
aforesaid into the Treasury, the refunding of which having
been recommended by the treasury officials.

Effective.

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

CHAPTER 188.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendment Section 13,
Chapter 52 of the Acts of 1896, entitled "An Act to incor-
porate the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company,"
and also to add an additional section to said chapter.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Repeal.

and, That section 13, chapter 52 of the Acts of 1896, entitled
"An Act to incorporate the United States Fidelity and
Guaranty Company," be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted so that the same shall read as follows :
13. And be it enacted, That the said corporation is author-

Authority
given.

ized to take, have, hold and enjoy all such estates, real, per-
sonal and mixed, as may be obtained by the investment of its
capital stock or assets, or that may come into its possession in
the course of its dealings and business, and the same to sell,
grant, mortgage, lease and dispose of at pleasure, and to
execute, acknowledge and deliver all deeds and other instru-
ments of writing concerning the same.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That an additional section be

New section
added.

added to said chapter 52 of the Acts of 1896, to be known as
section 15 A, and to follow section 15 of chapter 52 of the
said Acts of 1896, which is to read as follows :
15 A. The said company shall have the right to increase its

Increase its
capital;
stock.

capital stock to the sum of $500,000 (tive hundred thousand
dollars) beyond the sum of $1,000,000 (one million dollars), its
present capital, as provided for in chapter 52 of the Acts of
1896, so that it may have a capital stock of $1,500,000 (one
million five hundred dollars), or it may increase it to any por-
tion of said sum of $500,000 (five hundred thousand dollars),