JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

fifty-seven, of the Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight, such additional section to follow Section nineteen,
and to be known as Section igA.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That an additional section be added to Article 45, of the
Code of Public General Laws, title "Husband and Wife," as
repealed and re-enacted by Chapter four hundred and fifty-
seven, of the Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, such
additional section to be known as Section 19 A, to follow Sec-
tion nineteen, and to read as follows:

Husband and
Wife.

19A. A married woman may contract with her husband, and
may form a copartnership with her husband, or with any other
person or persons in the same manner as if she were femme
sole, and upon all such contracts, partnership or otherwise, a
married woman may sue and be sued as fully as if she were a
femine sole.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1900.

CHAPTER 634.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 3, 5, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of Chapter
'five hundred and fourteen of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed in the year 1898, entitled
"An Act to incorporate the Frederick, Thurmont and
Northern Railway Company," and re-enact the same with
amendments, conferring enlarged and additional powers;
and to change the name of said company to "The Wash-
ington, Frederick and Gettysburg Railway Company."

A Married
woman may
contract
with her
husband.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the corporate name of the "Frederick, Thurmont
and Northern Railway Company," a body corporate hereto-
fore incorparated by Chapter five hundred and fourteen of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed in the year
1898, entitled an "Act to incorporate the Frederick, Thur-
mont and Northern Railway Company," be and the same is

Washington,
Frederick and
Gettysburg
Railway
Company.

hereby changed to "The Washington, Frederick and Gettys-
burg Railway Company," and by said last mentioned name
shall have and possess all the rights, privileges and franchises
granted and conferred by said Act of eighteen hundred and

Name
changed.