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on tlie 27th day of June, 1900, as bail for James J. Reynolds.

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

Approved March 30, 1908.

CHAPTER 145.

AN ACT to pay Kate B. Hudson, of Worcester county, Mary-
land, the sum of two hundred dollars per annum out of the
fund provided by section 53 A of chapter 584, Acts of 1904,
providing for the pension of certain teachers of the public
or normal schools of the State of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the State Board of Education be and is hereby
authorized and empowered to place upon the "teachers' re-
tired list" the name of Kate B. Hudson, of Worcester county,
Maryland, and to certify regularly to the Comptroller of the
Treasury of this State the name of the said Kate B. Hudson,
with the names of the other retired teachers of this State,
and also shall receive and be paid a pension of two hundred
dollars per annum, and be paid quarterly by the Treasurer of
this State upon the warrant of the Comptroller as other
teachers on said "retired list" are paid.

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

Approved March 30, 1908.

CHAPTER 155.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Police Commissioners for
the city of Baltimore to pay out of the "special fund" a
pension to James R. Browne, formerly a policeman in the
city of Baltimore, whose skull was fractured while he was
in the discharge of his duty as a policeman.

Whereas James R. Browne, who served for fourteen years as
policeman and detective on the force in the city of Baltimore,
received a serious injury to his head by a billy in the hands of
offenders while he was in the discharge of his duty as such
officer; and

Whereas he was a contributor to the "special fund" and is
now without means of support, and confined in Mount Hope as
hopelessly incapacitated; and