1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 252.

for Anne Arundel county, for the first collection district
thereof, for the year hundred and forty-eight, be and he
is hereby authorised and empowered to collect any tax,
or balance of taxes, now remaining due and uncollect-
ed by him in said collection district.

Oath required.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said William N.
Leetch, trustee of William H. Ward, deceased, aforesaid,
shall in every instance, before he shall proceed to the
aforesaid collection, make affidavit before some justice
of the peace for said county, that the same remains
due and uncollected, and that he hath not received any

Proviso.

part thereof other than the credits given; provided, that
no person or persons shall be compelled to pay any tax
or balance of taxes so alleged to be unpaid, who shall,
before any justice of the peace in said county, make
oath that the said tax, or balance of taxes, has been paid
and fully satisfied.

In force.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall con-
tinue and be in force until the first day of April eighteen

hundred and fifty-one.

CHAPTER 252.

Passed Mar. 4,
1850.

A supplement to the act of eighteen hundred and forty-
one, chapter two hundred and sixty.

Repealed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the third, fourth and fifth sections
of the act of eighteen hundred and forty-one, chapter
two hundred and sixty, be and the same is hereby re-

Proviso.

pealed; provided, that any person violating the provi-
sions of said act, may be prosecuted for the same at any
time before the silting of the county courts.

One-half to
informer.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in all pro-
secutions to recover the penalty imposed for a violation
of the said act, the informer shall be entitled to one-half
of the same, and that the guns, boats, apparatus, and
all other things on board of any such boat as is men-
tioned in the said act, or of any boat attending upon the
came, are hereby declared to be forfeited, and on the
conviction of their owner or occupier, they shall be sold
by the sheriff to the highest bidder, for cash, and the
proceeds of sale, after deducting the costs of the prose-
cution, shall be equally divided between the informer