JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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CHAPTER 397.

AN ACT to authorize the Comptroller to draw his

warrant on the Treasurer, for a sum of money

sufficient to re-imburse Sprigg Harwood, for

money erroneously paid into the State Treasury,

and to direct said Sprigg Harwood to pay the

same, when so re-imbursed, to the County School

Commissioners for Anne Arundel county.

WHEREAS, Sprigg Harwood, Esquire, Clerk of the

Circuit Court for Anne Arundel county has, since

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the passage of the act of the General Assembly of

January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-four,

chapter one hundred and eighty-one, collected for

licenses for taking oysters with tongs or rakes, a

certain sum of money; and

WHEREAS, the said act requires said license to be

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paid over by the Clerks of the Circuit Courts for the

use of the Primary Schools of the respective counties;

and

WHEREAS, the said Sprigg Harwood, Clerk of the

Circuit Court for Anne Arundel county, has through

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a misunderstanding of said act of Assembly, paid

into the Treasury of the State, the monies so re-

ceived by him for licenses for taking oysters with

tongs or rakes, as will appear by the certificate of

the Comptroller of the Treasury; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the Comptroller of the Treasury

Issue warrant
in favor of.

draw his warrant on the Treasurer for such sum as

may be necessary to refund to Sprigg Harwood,

Esquire, Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arun-

del county, fourteen hundred and thirty-three dol-

lars and fifty-five cents, paid by him for licenses to

take oysters with rakes or tongs since the passage of

the law passed at January session, eighteen hundred

and seventy-four, chapter one hundred and eighty-

one.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That Sprigg Harwood,

Pay over.

Esquire, Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arun-