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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 112.

Passed Feb.
10, 1862.

AN ACT to amend the twenty-fifth section of the
ninety-fourth Article of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws, relating to "Treasurer," and to pro-
vide for examining, cancelling and burning the
bonds and certificates of stock belonging to the
Sinking Fund.

Repealed.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the twenty-fifth section of the
ninety-fourth Article of the Code of Public General
Laws, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that
the following section be enacted in lieu thereof:

Bonds, &c.,
purchased for
Sinking Fund
directed to be
cancelled.

The Comptroller and the Treasurer shall, within
the first two weeks of January, April, July and
October, in every year, in the presence of the Gov-
ernor, count and cancel the bonds and certificates
for stocks of the State, purchased or obtained by
the Treasurer for the use of the Sinking Fund,

Statement of
bonds cancell-
ed to be filed
in Comptrol-
ler's office.

Duty of Leg-
islative com-
mittees.

and a statement of the bonds and certificates so
counted and cancelled, signed by the Comptroller
and Treasurer, and countersigned by the Governor,
shall be filed in the office of the Comptroller ; and
the committee on Finance of the Senate, and the
committee on Ways and Means of the House of
Delegates, shall, during each session of the Legis-
lature, examine, count and burn all such bonds
and certificates of stock as have been so purchased
or obtained up to the close of the fiscal year next
preceding the session, and cancelled as aforesaid,
and shall make report of their proceedings therein
to the Legislature at the same session in which
they shall perform said duty.

in force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect on the first day of April next.