JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 727

CHAPTER 480.
AN ACT to repeal section four of an act passed
January session, eighteen hundred and seventy,
chapter four hundred, entitled " an act to author-
ize the Frederick and Pennsylvania Line Rail
Road Company to build a railroad from Frederick
city, the terminus of the road, which it is author-
ized under its charter to build, through Frederick
and Montgomery counties to the boundary of the
District of Columbia, so as to make a direct con-
nection with the City of Washington," and to re-
enact the same with amendments.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That section four of an act of the General	Repealed and re-enacted
Assembly of Maryland, passed January session, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy, chapter four hundred, en-
titled " an act to authorize the 'Frederick and Penn-
sylvania Line Rail Road Company to build a rail-
road from Frederick city, the terminus of the road,
which it is authorized under its charter to build,
through Frederick and Montgomery counties to
the boundary of the District of Columbia, so as to
form a distinct connection with the City of Wash-
ington," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted so as to read as follows :
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That unless the railroad
hereby authorized, shall be commenced within six
years from the date of the passage of this act, and be	Commenced and completed.
completed, with at least one set of tracks, within
twelve years from the passage of this act, shall be
void and of no effect.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.	In force.
Approved April 11th, 1874.