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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 126.

Pasted March
23, 1865

AN ACT for the relief of certain parties indebted
to the State for sums due prior to the first day
of August, eighteen hundred and sixty, and
certain parties against whom suits have been
instituted under the directions of the Comp-
troller, in pursuance of Resolution number
twenty of the General Assembly of Maryland,
passed at the session of eighteen hundred and
sixty-one and eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, the Comptroller of the State was -re-
quired and directed by Resolution number twenty,
of the. General Assembly, passed at the session of
eighteen hundred and sixty-one and eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-two, thirty days after the passage of
the said resolution, to cause suits to be instituted
against all parties indebted to the State therein
named; and whereas, many of said claims are of
long standing, and it is desirable to secure the
speedy settlement of said indebtedness to the
State, and the State to-secure the prompt payment
of the principal, is willing to release the interest :

Released
from paying
interest

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That all Clerks, Registers of Wills,
Notaries Public, Auctioneers, Foreign Insurance
Agents, Collectors of Taxes and Sheriffs, indebted
to the State for sums due prior to the first day of
August, eighteen hundred and sixty and the
sureties upon their official bonds, be and they are
hereby released from the payment of the interest

Provisos.

now due on the State's claims against them; pro-
vided, that the amounts due for the principal' of
the said claims have been paid or shall be paid
into the treasury on or before the first day of Oc-
tober, eighteen hundred and sixty-five; and pro-
vided further, that the aforesaid parties respec-
tively, or their sureties, shall pay on or before the
first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-
five, to the State's Attorneys of the several coun-
ties and the city of Baltimore, five per centum com-
mission on the full amount of the judgments with
interest thereon, recovered by the State against