JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

Public General Laws, title "Juries," shall be placed by said
judges, or either of them, in said compartments of said box,
respectively, which bear the numbers of the districts where
the persons so selected respectively reside; and it shall be
the duty of said judges, or either of them, when selecting the
panel of one hundred and fifty persons, as provided for in
Section seven of Article 51 of the Code of Public General
Laws, to distribute the names of the persons on said panel as
nearly equal as may be possible among said compartments, or
may, in his or their discretion, distribute said names among
all the said compartments in proportion to the male popula-
tion of the several districts who may be eligible for jury duty,
and the said judge or judges shall draw from all the said com-
partments an equal number of names, or such a number of
names as may be in proportion to the male population of the
respective districts who are eligible for jury duty as afore-
said.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all that portion of Article
51 of the Code of Public General Laws of the State of Mary-
land inconsistent herewith, be and the same is hereby repealed
as far as the same may apply to Howard County.

Approved March 27, 1900.

CHAPTER 122.
AN ACT to enlarge the powers and privileges of the New
York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Rail-
road Company, a corporation duly created under and pursuant
to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly passed
at the session of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, Chapter
two hundred and fifty-six, shall, in addition to its present
corporate powers, have and be possessed of power to consoli-
date and merge its railroad and property with any other
railroad company or companies either in or out of this State,
so that the capital stock of said companies so consolidated
and merged shall constitute a common stock, equal in
amount, character and par value to the authorized capital
stock of the companies so consolidated and merged, and the
respective companies shall thereafter constitute one company,
and be entitled to all the property franchises, and rights,
privileges and immunities which each of the companies so
consolidating are possessed of and enjoy under their respect-

New York,
Philadelphia,
and Norfolk
Railroad Co.

Powers and
privileges en-
larged.