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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Proviso.

dred dollars of assessable property annually, for
the redemption of the bonds so authorized to be is-
sued; provided, That said City Hall shall not be
commenced within one year from the passage of

this Act.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 2.

Passed Jan.,
31, I866.

AN ACT to authorise Grayson Eichelberger, State
Bounty Commissioner, of Frederick county, to
pay Dennis H. Maynard, certain bounties.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of eighteen hundred and sixty-five,
chapter thirty-three, section two, and chapter one
hundred and six, section two, certain bounties were
given to volunteers therein mentioned, payable to
them or their authorised agents or attorneys; and
whereas, it is represented to this General As-
sembly that the following named twenty men, viz:
Ta car Newman, George Bowers, Thomas Powers,
John Braxton, James Thomas, Robert Turner,
Thomas Turner, William Miner, Nelson Parker,
Thomas Braxton, Henry Jones, Richard Washing-
ton, William Watson, James Barton, Thomas
Loomis, Samuel Smith, Louis Colb, Garrett Ball,
William Eck and Robert Lee, volunteers in the
United States Navy, duly credited to Johnsville
District of Frederick county, made an assignment
or transfer "of all their right and interest" to the
State Bounty to which they were entitled under
said acts, to Dennis H. Maynard, of Frederick
county, who had advanced the said State Bounty
for each and all of them; and whereas, the said
Eichelberger objects to paying said bounties to
said Maynard by reason of informality of said
transfer under said sections of the acts above re-
ferred to; Therefore,