T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 196.

AN ACT to punish the fraudulent embezzlement or
appropriation of money, funds or evidences of debt
by persons elected to any office or holding office un-
der the Governor of this State, or under the corporate
authorities of Baltimore, or under any other authori-
ties legally authorised to appoint to said offices.

Passed
Mar. 10, 1854.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That any person holding office in this
State, whether elected or appointed by the Governor,
by the corporate authorities of Baltimore, or by any other
authority legally authorised to make such appoint-
ments, and shall fraudulently embezzle or appropriate
to his own use money, funds, or evidences of debt,
which he is by law bound to pay over, account for, or
deliver to the Treasurer of this State, or to such oilier
person as is by law authorised to receive the same, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction
thereof, be sentenced to confinement in the Penitentiary
for a period not less than six months, nor more than ten
years.

Punishment.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from its passage.

CHAPTER 197.

In force.

AN ACT authorising the payment of a certain sum of
money therein named to T. J. and C. Wright, and to
John E. Cacy, assignee of William Mc. R. Osbourn.

Passed
Mar. 10, 1854,

WHEREAS, Samuel Stevens, Richard Ringgold,
Thomas Wright, third, and Samuel Roberts, four of
the commissioners appointed by the Governor in pur-
suance of chapter three hundred and twenty-three,
of December session eighteen hundred and thirty-

Preamble.