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WHEREAS, it appears to the General Assembly of
Maryland, That, Horace Resley, Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Allegany county, paid into
the Treasury in the year eighteen hundred and
fifty-two, as a 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 two
hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifteen
cents, and it appears to the said General As-
sembly, that by the fortieth section of the third
article, and the first section of the tenth arti-
cle 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 said
Horace Resley has, under a misapprehension of
his duty, paid into the Treasury the said sum of
money, and it being right and just that it
should be refunded to him, Therefore,
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Preamble.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the sum of two hundred
and ninety-nine dollars, and fifteen cents, be and
the same is hereby appropriated out of any un-
appropriated funds in the Treasury, for the use
of the said Horace Resley, and the Treasurer is
hereby authorised upon the warrant of the Comp-
troller to pay unto the said Horace Resley, the
said sum of two hundred and ninety-nine dollars
and fifteen cents.
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Sum appro-
priated.
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