T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

CHAPTER 320.

CHAP. 321.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money for the re-
demption and repayment of unused stamps and
to authorise the Comptroller to redeem the same.

Passed March
9, 1860.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the sum of five thousand dollars,
or so much thereof as may be found necessary, be
and the same is hereby appropriated for the repay-
ment of all monies which have been paid into the
treasury under the act of March tenth, eighteen
hundred and forty-five, entitled, an act imposing
duties on promissory notes, bills of exchange,
specialties and other instruments of writing, to aid
in paying the debts of the State, for stamped paper
or papers, which shall appear from evidence, satis-
factory to the Comptroller, not to have been used
within the meaning and intent of said act.

Appropria-
tion.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the treasurer shall
redeem all paper or papers issued under said act,
which shall be presented to him for redemption
prior to the thirtieth day of September, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, properly certified by the
Comptroller; Provided, he does not exceed the
amount appropriated for that purpose in section
first of this act.

Redemption
of papers.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the day of its passage.

CHAPTER 321.

In force.

AN ACT to amend the two hundred and fifty-
fifth and two hundred and seventy-fifth sections
of article twenty-one of the Code of Public Local
Laws, so far as the same relates to public schools
in Washington, county.

Passed March
10, 1860.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That article twenty-one, section
two hundred and fifty-five of the code of public lo-

Tax for use
of public
schools.