PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1847.

six months: provided nevertheless, that a recovery and
payment of the penalties under the act to which this is
a supplement shall be a bar to any indictment under
this act for the same offence.

CHAP. 286.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That upon any proceed-
ing for the recovery of any fine imposed by the act to
which this is a supplement, the party from whom it is
sought to be recovered shall be bound to answer on
oath any bill of discovery which may be filed against
him in the premises by the commissioners of lotteries,
in the name of the State, either in the High Court of
Chancery or in any county court as a court of equity.

To answer on

oath.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the informer shall
be a competent witness to prove any violation of this act,
or of the act to which it is a supplement, or of any of
the acts in regard to the lottery system, and that no
witness shall be allowed to decline answering any
question which may be asked him upon any indictment
or other proceeding under any of the above mentioned
acts, although the answer thereto may criminate or tend
to criminate the party answering, but the answer shall
not be used as evidence against the witness.

Informer to be
a competent
witness.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall be in
force and take effect from the day of its passage.

CHAPTER 285.

In force.

A further supplement to the act entitled, an act for the
distribution of a certain fund for the purpose of estab-
lishing Free Schools in the several counties therein
mentioned,.

Passed
March 9, 1848.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the orphans court of Harford county
shall draw for and receive the portion of the school
fund to which said county is or may be entitled at the
periods now prescribed by law, and that said court
when the same is received shall apportion and divide it
among the respective election districts of said county
in the proportions as follows, to wit: to the first elec-
tion district, Abingdon, eleven and an half per centum
'hereof; to the second election district, Hall's Cross
Roads, seventeen per centum thereof; to the third elec-
tion district, Bel-air, twenty-one per centum thereof;
to the fourth flection district, Marshall's, twenty

School fund to
be drawn, and
apportionment
regulated.