968 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 571.

AN ACT to refund to Edgar Harrington & Co., Merchants, for-
merly trading in Cambridge, Maryland, a sum of money paid
for a trader's license, their place of business having been de-
stroyed by fire.

WHEREAS, Edgar Harrington & Co., 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 Edgar
Harrington & Co. paid the sum of forty dollars; and,

WHEREAS, The building of the said Edgar Harrington & Co.,
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 Edgar Harrington & Co., of said license, and the
said firm of Edgar Harrington & Co. 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
unused period be refunded to said Edgar Harrington & Co.;
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 Edgar Harrington & Co., former mer-
chants of Cambridge, Maryland, for the sum of twenty-eight
dollars ($28.00), being a due proportion of said license fee for
a period during which said license was unusued, to wit: nine
months.

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

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 572.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 179 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George's County, as
codified by Chapter 22 of the Acts of 1912, title "County
Commissioners," as said Section was repealed and re-enacted
by Section 90 of Chapter 222 of the Acts of 1898, relating to