Hamilton v. State ex rel. Wells
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. This was an application hy the State on the relation of George Wells and James A. Hardesty for a mandamus to compel the Governor of Maryland to deposit in the office of the Court of Appeals a certain bill alleged by the relators to be a law under the provisions of section IT of Article 2, of the Constitution, and improperly withheld.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. This was an application hy the State on the relation of George Wells and James A. Hardesty for a mandamus to compel the Governor of Maryland to deposit in the office of the Court of Appeals a certain bill alleged by the relators to be a law under the provisions of section IT of Article 2, of the Constitution, and improperly withheld. The petition of the relators stated that they were residents in, and citizens of, Anne Arundel County, and had an interest in the protection of the oyster beds of said county and in the enforcement of the…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
To an application for a mandamus against William T. Hamilton, Governor of Maryland, directing him to deposit a certain bill, which had passed the General Assembly, in the office of the clerk of the Court of Appeals, and which bill the petition claimed was a law, because it was presented to the Governor more than six days before the final adjournment of the Legislature, but had neither been *27vetoed nor signed by him, tbe Governor interposed several objections. One was that the bill had not been presented to him personally, until within the period of six days before the final adjournment of the…
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