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CHAPTER 316.
Distribution.

AN ACT
To repeal Section one hundred and thirty
seven of article ninety three, of the Code
of Public General Laws, title TestamentaFy
Law, subtitle Distribution, and re-enact
the same to read as follows!
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That section one
hundred and thirty-seven, of article ninety
three, of the Code of Public General Laws,
title Testamentary Law, subtitle Distrihu'
ton, be repealed, and is hereby Fe-enated so
to read as follows:
Section 49, If any legal representative
shall appear, afterpayment has been made, I'M
der the preceding section, the Board OF County
School Commissioners receiving such pay
ment, shall pay the same to such representa-
tive, but no collateral more remote than
brothers and sisters children shall claim
under this section.
Section 2. And be it enacted, That this ACT
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
FETTER S. H0BLITzELL,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
EDWARD LLOYD.
President of the Senate.
Approved April 5, 1878.
JOHN LEE CARROLL.
Governor of Maryland.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is a
correct copy of an act passed the General
Assembly of Maryland, at the January ses-
sion 1878.
AUGUSTUS GAssAwAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk House of Delegates.
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CHAPTER 424.
Z 4Z4.
TERRAPINS.
AN ACT

TERRAPINS.
AN ACT
To protect diamond back terrapins in the
waters of the State of Maryland, and tC
regulate the catching of the same.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That hereafter it shall
be unlawful for any person to take or catch
diamond back terrapins from the waters Of
this State, between the first day of April and
the first day of November, in each year.
Sec 2. Be it enacted, That it shall be un-
lawful for any person or persons, to take OF
catch from the waters of this State, any dia-
mond back terrapin, of less size than five
inches in length upon the bottom she'll, al
any time.
Sec 8. Be it enacted, That it shall be I'M
lawful for any person to interfere with, or in
any manner destroy the diamond back terra
pin eggs.
Sec 4. Be it enacted, That none but bona
| fde citizens of the counties of this State, Dor
dering upon the waters of the same, shall
take or catch diamond back terrapins from
said waters.
| Sec s. Be it enacted, That any person OF
persons violating the provisions of this act,
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and
upon conviction of the same, before JustIca
of the Peace, III the county in which the Of
| tense shall have been committed, he, she, or
they shall be find sum not less than five nor
more than ten dollars for each diamond back
terrapin so taken or caught, or for destroying
any diamond back terrapin eggs, one-half oil
said fine to go to the informer, and the bal
ance to be paid over by the said Justice Of
the Peace to the County Commissioners OF
said county, to be by them disbursed for the
benefit of said county, said fine to be collec-
ted as other fines and forfeitures are now col
| lected.
Sec. 6. Be it enacted, That the possession
of any diamond back terrapin, by any person
or persons, within the time prescribed by this
act, prohibiting the taking and catching Of
the same, shall be deemed prima facia evil
dence that said person or persons have viola
ted the provisions of this act.
Sec. Z. Be it enacted, That the constables
| of the several counties of this State, shall,
upon the information of any one, arrest all
persons violating the provisions of this act,
and carry them before the nearest Justice OF
| the Peace of the county, wherein such ofense
shall have been committed, to be dealt with
in accordance with the provisions of section
five of this act.
Sec 8. Be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
FETTER S. HOBLITZELL,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
EDWARD LLOYD,
President of the Senate,
Approved April 9Th, 1878.
JOHN LEE CARROLL,
Governor of Maryland.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing. is
correct copy of an act passed at the Janu-
airy session, 1878.
AUGUSTUS GAssAwAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk House of Delegates.
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elief Loan, and the Treasurer of the State is

Relief Loan, and the Treasurer of the State is
hereby authorized and directed to issue certi-
fcates of debt, or bonds of the State, to an
amount not exceeding FIVE hundred thousand
dollars, to be countersgned by the Comptrol-
Ter. in the name and on behalf of the State of
MARYLAND, which bonds or certificates shall
hear interest at the rate of six per centum per
| annum, payable semi-annually on the first day
off January and the first day of July, in each
wear, and be redeemable at the pleasure of
the State, in not less than ten nor more than
fifteen years. and which said bonds or certifi-
Gates shall be sold for not less than their face
value, exclusive of all commissions, and the
proceeds passed into the Treasury to reim-
burse the same for the losses which have so
occurred thereto.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That a special
tax of one and one-half cents be, and the same
is hereby laid on each and every one hundred
dollars of the taxable property of this State,
to meet the interest and create sinking fund
for the redemption of the bonds or certificates
of debt, herein directed to be issued; and the
said tax shall be annually levied, collected
and paid over to the State Treasurer, until
the debt created by this act shall have been
paid, and distinct and separate account shall
be kept thereof, and the proceeds thereof are
hereby pledged to the payment of the interest
and principal of the said bonds or certificates
of debt, and for that purpose, so much there
of as may be necessary shall be applied to the
payment of the interest upon said bonds or
certificates of debt, and the balance invested
by the Treasurer in such manner as the in
crement of the sinking fund of the State is
! authorized by law to be invested.
| Sec 3. And be it enacted, That the Treas
urer be, and he is hereby further authorized
to SELL with the approval ofthe Governor and
Comptroller, and to the best advantage, from
time to time, as the necessity of the Treasury
NAV require, any or all of the bonds which
are to be issued to the State of Maryland by
the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company,
in accordance with chapter - of the acts OF
the present General Assembly, and to apply
the proceeds of the sale or sales thereof, to
the support of the government OF the State;
| less than par value.
Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That this act
shall take effect from and after the date OF Its
passage. ,,
FETTER S. HOBLITZEL4L,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
EDWARD LLOYD,
President of the Senate.
Approved April 1st, 1878.
JOHN LEE CARROLL,
Governor of Maryland.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is cor
rect copy of an Act of Assembly, passed at
January session, 1878.
AUGUSTUS GAssAwAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
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CHAPTER 1872.
BOUNDARY LINE.


AN ACT
To authorize the appointment of Commission
ers to adjust and settle the boundary line
between West Virginia and Maryland.
WHEREAS by the Act of eighteen hundred and
fiftY-two, chapter two hundred and seventy.
five, the Governor of Maryland was en-
powered to correspond with the Governor
of Virginia, with view to locate, run and
mark the line between said States, begin
ming at Fairfax Stone, and running due
north tt, the Pennsylvania line, for reasons
set forth in the preamble to said act of
eighteen hundred and fifty-two; and,
w hereGs, Commissioners were appointed
by the Governors of Virginia and Maryland,
for said purpose; and,
Whereas, said Commissioners did meet at
the place ofbeginning, namely: Fairfax Stone,
in September, eighteen hundred and fifty
eight, and with Lieutenant Michler, of the
United States Corps of Engineers, proceeded
to locate, run and mark said line between the
places of beginning Fairfax Stone and the
Pennsylvania line, and make report to their
respective States, in eighteen hundred and
sixty, and also delivered to their respective
States field books, plates and typographical
charts Of the same, for the purpose Of ratify-
ing and establishing the line between said
States, and,
Where's, the war between the States pre-
vented any further action under said Commis-
sioners; and as a further result, caused the
organization of the State of West Virginia;
and,
Whereas, there are now strong reasons for
the ratification and permanent settlement of
said line between Maryland aud West Vir-
ginia, therefore,
Section /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the Governor
be, and he is hereby requested to open cor
respondence with the Governor of West Vir-
ginia, with view to the establishment and
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CHAPTER 427.
ELECTIONS.

AN ACT
To repeal and re-enact with amendments sec
tons forty nine and fifty lone of article
thirty-fve, of the Code of Public General
Laws, title ELECTIONS" sub title Especial
Elections"
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly of Marylandb. That sections forty mine
and ffty-one, of article thirty five, of the Code
of Public General Laws, title ELECTIONS"
subtitle especial Elections" be and the
same are hereby repealed, and the following
be enacted in lieu thereof:
Sec. 40. Warrants for all special elections
shall be issued to the sheriff of the county or
city where the election is to be held, who
shall appoint day for the holding of the
same, and shall give at least ten days notice
thereof, exclusive of the day of publication
and day of election, by advertisements set up
at the most public places within each district
of the county, and by advertisements in two
newspapers of general circulation in such
county. In the city of Baltimare ten days
herein prescribed of all special elections,
whether for federal, State or municipal off
GERS.
Sec. 81. Such elections shall be held within
fifteen days after the warrant shall be receiv-
ed by the sheriff.
Sec. 2 And be it enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage
FETTER S. HOBLITZELL,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
EDWARD LLOYD,
President of the Senate.
Approved April 5, 1873.
JOHN LEE CARROLL,
Governor of Maryland.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is
correct copy of an act passed at the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, at the January
Session, 1878.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
AUGUSTUS GAssAwAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
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CHATTER 238.
TO n UTHORIZE A LOAN.

AN ACT
To authorize loan TO relieve the Treasury
from losses accruing from the failure of GER
tain sources of revenue, and also to author
ize a sale of certain bonds of the Baltimore
and Ohio Rail Road Company therein re-.
ferred to.
Whereas, losses have accrued to the revenues
Of the State from the failure Of the Susque-
hanna and Tide Water Canal Companies,
TO pay the interest on the mortgages due the
State, and from the failure Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Rail Road Company, to pay any
portion of the amount due the State from
the one, fifth Of the receipts from passengers
ON its Washington Branch Road, and also
from the failure to pay the accustomed
dividends on the stock of the State, in the
said Washington Branch Road; and,
Whereas, it is necessary, in order to relieve
the State Treasury from the effects of said
several losses, to create loan for that puf-
pose; therefore,
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That a loan be. and
is hereby created, to be called the Treasury
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CHAPTER 264.
CRIMES md PUNISHlHENTA.

AN ACT
To add an additional section to Article thir-
ty, of the Code of Public General Laws,
entitled "Crimes and Punishments," sub
title "Embezzling Property and Writings"
to provide for the punishment of embezzlmg
property and writings.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the following
section be added to article thirty, ofthe Code
of Public General Laws, entitled "CrimeS
and Punishments," subtitle "EmbezzGng
Property and Writings" to be read as part
of the sections of said subtitle, next after
section forty-nine, of said article, and to be
called sub section A.
Subsection A. If any person or persons
employed in the management or navigation
of any vessel, on any river, canal, bay or 9th
er waters within this State exclusively, in any
capacity whatever shall fraudulently sell, give
away, pledge, or in any manner dispose of
the cargo thereof, or any article of commodl-
ty thereon, without the consent of the owner
or owners thereof, or, if havingsold the same,
or any part thereof, with such consent,
shall fraudulently neglect or refuse to pay
over to such owner or owners thereof, the
consideration received therefor, shall be deem
ed guilty of misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof, in any court of this state having
criminal jurisdiction, shall be punished by
fine of not less than one thousand nor more
than three thousand dollars, or by imprison-
ment in the county Jail of the county in which
such conviction is had, or the State Penlten-
tiary, for term of not more than FIVE years,
or by both fine and Imprisonment, at the dis
erection of the court.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act
shall take effect from the date of its passage
FETTER S. HOBLITZELL.
Speaker of the House of Delegates
EDWARD LLOYD,
President of the Senate.
Approved this fifth day of April, 1873,
JOHN LEE CARROLL,
Governor of Maryland
We hereby certify that the aforegoing IS
correct copy of an act passed the General
Assembly of Maryland, at the January SEES
sion, 1878.
AUGUSTUS GASsAwAY,
Secretary of the Senate
MUTTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk House of Delegates
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CHAPTER 467.
Crimes and Punishments, Subtitle
ROgues and VagabOnds.

CHAPTER 467.
Crimes and Punishments, Subtitle
Rogues and VagabOnds.
AN ACT
To repeal section one hundred and seyenly.
three, of Article Thirty, of the Code Of
Public General Laws entitled "Crimes and
Punishments," subtitle "Rogues and Vag-
abonds," and to re-enact the same with
amendments.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland That section one hun
dred and seventy three, of article thirty, oi
the Code of Public General Laws, entitled
Grimes and Punishments, subtitle Rogues
and Vagabonds be, and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:
173. If any person shall be apprehended
having upon him any picklock, key, crow,
jack, bit or other implement, at places and
under circumstances, from which an intent
may be presumed feloniously to break and
enter into any dwelling house, warehouse.
storehouse, stable, or clubhouse, or shall have
upon him any pistol, dagger, cutlass, bludg'
con or other offensive weapon, also at places
and under circumstances from which may be
presumed an intent feloniously 10 assault any
person, or shall be found in or upon any
dwelling house, warehouse, storehouse, stable
or clubhouse, or in any enclosed yard or gar
den, or area, belonging to any house, with an
intent to steal any goods or chaltels, every
such persons shall be deemed rogue and a
vagabond, and on being convicted thereof
shall be sentenced to the Penteltiary for not
less than one month, nor more than two years,
OF by Imprisonment in Jail, at the discretion
of the Court, for a like term.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
EDWARD LLOYD,
President of the Senate.
FETTER s. HQBLITZELL,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
Approved April 9Th, 1873.
JOHN LEE CARROLL,
Governor of Maryland.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is a
correct copy of an act passed the General
Assembly Of Maryland at the January Ses
sion, 1873.
AUGUSTUS GAssAwAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
MILTON Y KIDD,
Chief Clerk House OF Delegates,
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CHAPTER ATS.
Clerks of Courts.
Az (NT

AN ACT
To repeal and re-enact section five of article
eighteen, of the Code of Public General
Laws, entitled "Clerks of Courts" as re-
enacted by an Act passed at January ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and sixty five, chap
ter five.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That section five of
article eighteen, of the Code of Public Cen
eral Laws, entitled "Clerks of Courts" as
re-enacted at the January session of the Cen
eral Assembly of Maryland, eighteen hun
bred and sxty-fve, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re- enacted with amendments,
to read as follows:
Sec. 5. Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly of Maryland, That the clerk of the
courts of this State may issue an execution
on Judgment, or decree, at any time after the
rendition thereof directed to the sheriff of
another county, whether a return of nuLtG
bona to writ of execution issued to the sheS-
iff of the county or city wherein the said
judgment or decree was rendered, has been
made or not, which writ of execution issued
and directed to the sheriff of another county,
shall be made returnable to the Circuit Court
of the county to which it may be sent, and If
sent to the city of Baltimore, returnable to
the Superior court of said city, and there shall
be sent Herewith by the clerk issuing the
same, to the clerk of the court to which said
writ shall be re turnable, copy of the docket
entries in the case upon which the court
may proceed on said execution, by renewal
or otherwise, in the same manner as if said
execution had issued on judgment or de-
cree rendered in said court, and on attach
ments on judgment or DEGREES, shall be re-
garded as an execution, the meaning ofthis sec
ton; provided, nevertheless, that no execution
or attachment on Judgment shall be issued
and directed to another county, if there has
been no return of nulla bona, until the plain
tiff or plaintiffs, or his or their attorney of
record, shall make and file with the clerks
issuing the same, an affidavit that he or they
are unable to discover in the county or city
where the judgment or decree has been, OBJ
tanned, property from which the same can be
realized; and provided, further, that no
judgment or decree shall be lien upon real
estate situated in another county from that
wherein the said judgment or decree was OBJ
tanned, or in the city of Baltimore, except
from the date of the entry of the copy of the
docket entries by the clerk of the Court to
which the said writ shall be returnable.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
FETTER S. HOBLITZELL,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
EDWARD LLOYD,
President of the Senate.
Approved April 5th, 1878.
JOHN LEE CARROLL,
Governor of Maryland.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is cor
rect copy of an act passed at the General
Assembly of Maryland, at the January ses-
sion, 1878.
MILTON 7. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
AUGUSTUS GAssAwAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
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CHAPTER 343.
To Establish a House of Refuge.

10 ESCaDIlSn house Oh heluScs
AN ACT
To repeal Section one, of an Act passed at
the January Session of eighteen hundred
and ffty-three, of the General Assembly of
Maryland, entitled an Act to amend an Act
entitled an Act to establish House of Re-
fuge for Juvenile Delinquents, and supple
ments thereto, so as to reduce the number
of managers thereof, and to enact the
same with amendments, so as to read as
follows:
Section l. Be it enacted by the General As:
semhly Of Maryland, That section one, of the
act passed at the January session of eighteen
hundred and itty-three, of the General As
sembly Of Maryland, entitled an act to amend
an act entitled an act to establish House of
Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents, and supple
ments thereto, so as to reduce the number of
managers thereof, be and is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments, so as to
read as follows:
Section l. And be it enacted, That the
number of managers of the House of Refuge
shall be fifteen, instead oftwenty- four, as now
prescribed by law, and of whom five shall be
appointed by the Governor, by and with the
consent of the Senate; five shall be elected by
the members of the association, and five shall
be appointed by the Mayor and City Council
Of Baltimore, IN the manner, and at the times
prescribed in the act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and thirty, chapter sixty
four, entitled an act to establish House of
Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents, seven of
which said managers shall constitute quorum
for the transaction of business.
Section 2. And be itenacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
EDWARD LLOYD,
President of the Senate.
FETTER S. H0BLITZELI.,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Approved April 1, 1878.
JOHN LEE CARROLL,
Governor of Maryland
We hereby certify, that the aforegoing is a
correct copy of an Act passed the General
Assembly of Maryland, at the January Ses-
sion, 1878.
AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk House of Delegates.
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CHAPTER 453.
Boundary Line.

AN ACT
Providing for copying and distributing the
maps accompanying the award of Commits
sioners to settle the boundary line between
the States of Maryland and Virginia, filed
the nineteenth day of January, eighteen
hundred and seventy seven.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the Commits
sioner of the Land Office be, and he is hereby
authorized and directed to have made, under
his hand and seal, and under the hand and
seal of the Governor of Maryland, thirty cop
les of the map accompanying the award of
Commissioners to settle the boundary line
between the States of Maryland and Virginia,
filed the nineteenth day of January, eighteen
hundred and Seventy-seven, prOcided the cost
of the same shall not exceed the sum of one
hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That one copy
shall be sent to the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for each of the counties of the State, and Bal
timore city, one copy to the Maryland Histor-
ical Society, one copy to the Peabody Insti-
tute, one copy to the Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, and one copy to the Library of Congress,
and that the Comptroller of the State be, and
he is hereby authorized to issue, upon the
certificate of the Commissioner of the Land
Office, his warrant upon the Treasurer for
the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date its passage.
FETTER S. HOBLIZELL,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
EDWARD LLOYD,
President of the Senate.
Approved March %, 1878.
JOHN LEE CARROLL,
Governor of Maryland.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is a
correct copy of an act passed at January ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and seventy eight.
AUGUSTUS GAssAwAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk House of Delegates.