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dred and fifty-two and eighteen hundred and
fifty-three, as tax on his office, as provided by
the act of eighteen hundred and forty-six, chap-
ter two hundred and fifty-three, the sum of one
hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents, and
Thomas B. Hobbs, Register of Wills for the
same county, also paid the sum of forty-five
dollars on the same account for the same period;
and it also appears to the General Assembly,
that by the fortieth section of the third article,
and the first section of the tenth article of the
Constitution, it was the intention of the framers
of that instrument to provide a new mode, and
abolish the old method of raising a revenue
from said offices; and that the parties aforesaid
have, under a misapprehension of their duties,
paid into the Treasury the said sums of money,
and it being right and just that the same
should be refunded to the said parties; There-
fore,
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the sum of one hundred
and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents be and the
same is hereby appropriated out of any unappro-
priated funds in the Treasury, for the use of the
parties mentioned in the preamble of this bill; and
the Treasurer is hereby authorised, upon the war-
rant of the Comptroller, to pay to William H.
Worthington the sum of one hundred and twelve
dollars and fifty cents, and to Thomas B. Hobbs
the sum of forty-five dollars.
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