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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

in receipt of dividends of ten per cent, per annum on the par
value of said stock, amounting to fifty -five thousand dollars in
each of said years; and,

WHEREAS, The said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
have failed to pay to the State of Maryland any dividends on
the said stock since the semi-annual dividend due in May,
eighteen hundred and ninety -seven; therefore, be it

Attorney-
General
authorized to
act.

Resolved, By the General Assembly of Maryland that the
Attorney -General of Maryland be and he is hereby authorized
and directed forthwith to take such proceedings as shall be
adequate and proper for the fullest assertion and protection of
all the rights of the State of Maryland in respect to its own-
erships in the stock of the Washington Branch of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company, whether by way of divi-
dends or otherwise, ————

No. 15.
Joint Resolution authorizing and directing the Board of Public
Works to take such steps as they, after consultation with
the Attorney- General, shall deem necessary to enforce the
decree passed by the Circuit Court for Washington County,
in equity, affirmed on appeal by the Court of Appeals for
the sale of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

Chesapeake
and Ohio
Canal.
To enforce the
decree of sale.

Be U resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Board of Public Works be and they are hereby authorized
and directed to take such steps as, after consultation with the
Attorney-General, they shall deem necessary to enforce the
decree of the Circuit Court for Washington County, in equity,
affirmed by the Court of Appeals in the case of the State of
Maryland vs. George S. Bram and others, trustees, reported
in 73 Volume of Maryland Reports, pp. 484-516, and again
affirmed upon a subsequent appeal in the case of the State of
Maryland vs. John K. Cowen and others, trustees, reported in
83 Volume of Maryland Reports, pp. 549-646, directing a sale
as in said decree provided of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal,
and to resist, in the name of the State, the passage of any
order or decree extending the time for the execution of said
decree by sale of said canal beyond the term already prescribed
by the order of the Circuit Court for Washington County, in
equity, to wit: Six years from the first day of May, 1895, and
to this end to instruct the Attorney-General to appear on
behalf of the State in said cause, and to assert of the right of
the State to enforce the execution of said decree as soon after
the first day of May, 1901, as shall be reasonable practicable.