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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 59.

Passed March
20, 1865.

AN ACT to make valid the official acts of the
Mayor and Council of Hagerstown.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, It is represented to this General As-
sembly that the Mayor and Council of Hagers-
town, through inadvertence and misapprehension,
failed to take the oath of office, as prescribed in
the first Article, sections seven and eight of the
Constitution, within the time therein prescribed;
therefore,

Ordinances,
&c., made
valid.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That all ordinances, laws, provisions
and acts made, passed and done since the thirtieth
day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-four,
by the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, be and
the same are hereby made legal and valid, as if
they, the said Mayor and Council had complied

Proviso.

with the provisions of Article first, sections seven
and eight of the new Constitution ; provided, the
said Mayor and Council take and subscribe the
said oath of office on or before the first day of
May, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the day of its passage.