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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

WHEREAS the General Assembly of Maryland did by

chapter three' hundred and ninety of the acts of eighteen

hundred and ninety authorize, empower and enable the

Preamble

County Commissioners of Caroline County to aid the Chesa-

peake and Delaware Railway in the construction of the branch

railroad authorized by the Act of the General Assembly of

Maryland of eighteen hundred and eighty-six, chapter two

hundred and sixty, by issuing the bonds of said county to

the amount of sixty thousand dollars for the purpose of rais-

ing money to be expended in such construction, and to levy

a tax on the taxable property of said county for the payment

of the interest and principal of said bonds.

AND WHEREAS in and by the said act of eighteen hundred

and ninety, chapter three hundred and ninety, the question

whether or not said aid should be granted to the said Dela-

Preamble

ware and Chesapeake Railway was authorized to be submitted

and was duly submitted to the voters of Caroline County,

according to the provisions of said act of eighteen hundred

and ninety, chapter three hundred and ninety, and amajority

of the said votes were cast for such aid, and whereas the said

act of eighteen hundred and ninety, and a majority of the

said votes were cast for such aid, and whereas the said act

of eighteen hundred and ninety was duly published in the

newspapers of Caroline County for two mouths before the

next election therereatter for members of the General As-

sembly according to the provisions of article tliree, section

fifty-four, of the Constitution of the State of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the aid to the Delaware and Chesapeake

Delaware

Railway by the County Commissioners of. Caroline County

and

Chesa-

in the construction of the branch railroad authorized by

peake
Railway.

chapter two hundred and sixty of the acts of eighteen hun-

dred and eighty-six, by issuing the bonds of said county to

the amount of sixty thousand dollars, for the purpose of

raising money to be expended in said construction of said

branch railroad, and to levy a tax on the taxable property

of said county for the payment of the interest and principal

of said bonds as authorized by the Act of the General As-

sembly of Maryland of eighteen hundred and ninety, chapter

three hundred and ninety be, and the same is hereby ratified,

confirmed and approved.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the County Commissioners of

Caroline County be, and are hereby authorized and empow-

ered to aid the Delaware and Chesapeake Railway in the

Empow-
ered.

construction of the said branch railroad authorized by chapter

two hundred and sixty of the acts of eighteen hundred and