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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Comptroller

hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant

diiected to is-
sue warrant.

upon the Treasurer in favor of William Howard,
late sheriff of Wicomico county, for the sum of one

hundred dollars, paid by him into the treasury ot
the State on forfeited recognizances against insolvents.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 194.

AN ACT to repeal sections nine and ten of chapter

four hundred and twenty-four of the acts of eigh-

teen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled "An act

to incorporate the town of Berlin, in Worcester

county," and to re-enact the same with amend-

ments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That sections nine and ten of chapter

Repealed and
re-enacted.

four hundred and twenty-four of the acts of eighteen
hundred and sixty-eight, entitled "An act to incor-

porate the town of Berlin, in Worcester county," be

and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so

as to read as follows :

Fines and for-

9. All fines and forfeitures under the ordinances

feitures.
How recov-
ered.

of said corporation may be recovered before a justice
of the peace by warrant, judgment and commitment

to the public jail of Worcester county, in the same

manner that commitments are made for fines im-

posed by the Circuit Courts of this State on convic-

tion for misdemeanor, but the said commissioners, or

Power to re-

a majority of them, shall have power at any time to

mit fines, &c

remit or release the said fines, penalties, forfeitures

and costs, or any part thereof, at their discretion ;

but any party who shall be fined or subjected to any