JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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WHEREAS, under the provisions of the said section

of the said article, if the said intestate left no rela-

Preamble.

tions within the fifth degree, reckoning in the mode

provided by said section of said article, the whole

surplus of said estate belongs to the State; therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That J. Thomas Jones, Edwin Linthicum

Pay over.

and Charles Bathgate, administrators of James

Stratton, late of Howard county, deceased, after pas-

sage of the final administration account of the estate

of said deceased, shall pay over the whole surplus of

said estate to the Board of County School Commis-

sioners of Howard county; provided, no relations

Proviso.

of said intestate, within the fifth degree, reckoning

in the mode provided by section one hundred and

thirty-six of article ninety-three, of the Maryland

Code of Public General Laws, shall appear before

payment of said surplus has been made to said Board

of County School Commissioners of Howard county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That if any legal repre-

sentative shall appear after payment has been made,

Legal repre-
sentative.

under the preceding section, the said Board of

County School Commissioners of Howard county,

shall pay the same to such representative, but no

collateral more 'remote than brother's and sister's

children shall claim under this section.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

In force.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1876,

CHAPTER 378.

AN ACT to protect fish in the Black Water River.

in Dorchester county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That it shall be unlawful for any person

Unlawful.