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Authority
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compromise
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brought any suit at law for the benefit of any infant or infants,
shall have, authority to compromise and settle said suit and the
cause of action ; provided, that whenever such " next friend "
shall not be a parent of the infant or a person standing in loco
parentis, the consent of such parent or other person shall first
be had and obtained ; and if both parents be dead and there be
no other/ person having the care and custody of the infant, the
authority of the Orphans' Court of the city or county in which
such suit has been brought shall be requisite to give validity to
the proposed compromise or settlement; but such authority
shall never be granted except upon written application therefor
by such "next friend " setting forth under oath all the facts of
the case and the reasons why such compromise or settlement is
deemed to be for the best interest of the infant. This section
shall apply to suits brought by the Slate of Maryland for the
use of infants as equitable plaintiffs, as well as to suits brought
by infants as plaintiffs by their " next friend."
Approved April 7, 1898.
CHAPTER 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 indebtedness
heretofore issued by said Mayor and Council, and the cost of
erecting a plant to supply the town of Rockville with Elec-
trie Lights.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and Council of Rockviile be and it is
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Issue bonds.
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hereby authorized to issue bonds in the name of said munici-
pal corporation to an amount not exceeding ten thousand five
hundred dollars ; the bonds issued under the provisions of this
Act shall be issued in sums of not less than one hundred dol-
lars and not more than five hundred dollars each ; and each of
said bonds shall be payable twenty years after date to the
bearer; and shall bear interest in the meantime at the rate of
four per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, according
to the tenor of the coupons of said interest to be attached to
said bonds ; and the bonds to be issued under the provisions of
this Act, are hereby exempted from all taxation for any pur-
pose ; provided, however, that said bonds shall not be sold for
less than par on the face value thereof, in cash current money ;
provided said bonds shall not be issued until the Mayor and
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