PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 291

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is here-
by authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the
State Treasurer in favor of Edward Davis, Manager of the
Hotel Rennert, for the sum of two hundred and twenty-two
dollars and seventy-five cents ($222.75), being the amount
paid by the said Edward Davis, Manager of the Hotel Ren-
nert, on the 22nd day of November, 1910, and which sum was
included in the amount paid on the first of May, 1910, for the
whole year for trader's license.

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

Approved March 30th, 1914.

CHAPTER 201.

AN ACT to refund to Frank C. O 'Brien, former proprietor of the
Eutaw House, in Baltimore City, a sum of money paid for a
license to be an ordinary keeper, the said Eutaw House having
been destroyed by fire.

WHEREAS, Frank C. O'Brien obtained from the Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas, in Baltimore City, a license to be an
ordinary keeper at the Eutaw House within said city, for the
term of one year from May 1,1912, for which license said Frank
C. O'Brien paid to said Clerk the sum of Four Hundred and
Fifty Dollars; and

WHEREAS, Said Eutaw House was destroyed by fire on May
25, 1912, after which time no use whatever was made by said
Frank C. O'Brien of said license, and he ceased to be an ordi-
nary keper at said hotel after said date; and

WHEREAS, The Comptroller of the Treasury and the State
Treasurer have recommended to the General Assembly of Mary-
land that a due proportion of said license fee for the term of
its unused period be refunded to said Franck C. O'Brien;
therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is hereby
authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the State
Treasurer in favor of Frank C. O'Brien, former proprietor of
the Eutaw House, for the sum of Four Hundred and Eight
Dollars and Thirty-eight Cents ($408.38), being a due propor-
tion of said license fee for a period daring which said license
was unused, to wit: eleven and one-sixth months.