PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 307

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

Approved March 30th, 1914.

CHAPTER 216.

AN ACT to refund to I. L. Leonard & Sons, merchants, formerly
trading in Cambridge, Maryland, a sum of money paid for a
trader's license, their place of business having been destroyed
by fire.

WHEREAS, I. L. Leonard & Sons obtained from the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for Dorchester County, a trader's license to
be used in the town of Cambridge, in said County, for the term,
of one year from May 1, 1910, for which license, the said I. L.
Leonard & Sons paid the sum of forty dollars; and

WHEREAS, The building p:E the said I. L. Leonard & Sons in
which they conducted their business was destroyed by fire on
July 30,1910, after which time, no use whatever was made by the
said I. L. Leonard & Sons of said license, and the said firm of
I. L. Leonard & Sons ceased to conduct said business under said
license; 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 un-
used period be refunded to said I. L. Leonard & Sons; 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 I. L. Leonard & Sons, former merchants
of Cambridge, Maryland, for the sum of twenty-eight dollars
and fifty cents ($28.50), being a due proportion of said license
fee for a period during which said license was unused, to wit:
nine months.

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

Approved March 30th, 1914.