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much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, to be
payable by the Treasurer of the State upon warrant of the
Comptroller, at such times and in such sums as may be author-
ized by the State Board of Health upon presentation of the
proper vouchers.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That all Acts and parts of Acts
inconsistent with this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from and after the 1st day of July, 1914.

Approved April 16th, 1914.

CHAPTER 676.

AN ACT to repeal Section 37 of Article 19 of the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Comptroller," as amended by Chapter
574 of the Acts of 1912, and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 37 of Article 19 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws, title "Comptroller," as amended by Chapter 574
of the Acts of 1912, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

37. The Comptroller is authorized and empowered to adjust
and settle the claims of the State against all collectors, sheriffs,
clerks of courts, registers of wills and other collectors or re-
ceivers of public money and their sureties, and against corpora-
tions and individuals: who may be indebted to the State in all
cases where said claims accrued prior to and including the year
1912, and whether said claims be in the form of judgment or
otherwise; and for the purpose of closing all such cases the
Comptroller is fully authorized to compromise the same by
abating the interest that- has accrued, or any portion thereof,
or any part of the principal debt, in his discretion, so as best
to subserve the interest of the State, and shall grant discharge
to said parties and their sureties upon the payment into the
Treasury of the amount required by him to be paid in settle-
ment as aforesaid; the Comptroller shall be satisfied after
thorough examination into the claims that the same could not
be collected by the State by legal process; and further, that
the Governor and Treasurer for the time being shall each ap-