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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

making such consolidation to provide by contract between the
companies thus consolidating, merging, leasing or selling,
the one unto the other, for the exchange of stock or bonds,
or both, or for the exchange of real, personal or mixed prop-
erty in consideration therefor, in such manner as may not be
inconsistent with the existing laws of the State; provided
nothing in this Act shall be taken or construed to be a release
or discharge of any existing rights for damages to property or
persons inflicted by any of said companies, or an abatement
of any suit or action in law or equity now pending, but that
all of such rights and actions at law and in equity shall be
and remain as if no such consolidation had taken place and
no change in the name of any of said companies had been
made, and all judgments or decrees recovered or rendered
shall be as binding and effective as if this Act had not been
passed.

SEC 7. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1900.

Repeal.
President and
Directors of
the Dover
Bridge Co.

CHAPTER 197.
AN ACT to repeal Chapter one hundred and ten of the Acts
of eighteen hundred and sixty, being an Act to incorporate
the President and Directors of the Dover Bridge Company.

SECTION 1. He it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter one hundred and ten of the Acts of
eighteen hundred and sixty, being an Act to incorporate the
President and Directors of the Dover Bridge Company be and
the same is hereby repealed.

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

Approved April 5, 1900.

CHAPTER 198.
AN ACT to refund to George W. Hatcherson, of Kent
County, in the State of Maryland, the sum of twenty-seven
dollars and forty -seven cents for money paid by him in error
for State taxes for twenty years from the year 1877 to the
vear 1896, inclusive, on private securities, which securities
were improperly assessed, being paid before January 1,

1877.