JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

certain mortgage bonds of the Western Maryland Railroad
Company, guaranteed by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore; and for the purpose of paying certain stock of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore therefor, issued
by it on behalf of the Western Maryland Railroad Com-
pany.

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WHEREAS, By the Act of Assembly of Maryland, eighteen
hundred and ninety-eight, Chapter two hundred and ten, ap-
proved April seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the
ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, No.
18, approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
was ratified and confirmed, and full power and authority was,
by said Act of Assembly conferred upon the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore to issue and sell the stock mentioned in
said ordinance, and to execute the mortgage to the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore therein mentioned; and,

W7HEREAS, Said ordinance was subsequently submitted to
the legal voters of the City of Baltimore, and by a majority of
them duly approved; and,

WHEREAS, Subsequently thereto the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore passed an ordinance supplementary to. and in
amendment of, said Ordinance No. 18, approved March ninth,
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, which supplementary and
amending ordinance was approved February eight, nineteen
hundred, being ordinance No. 32, the title whereof is set forth
in the first section of this Act; now, therefore,

Mortgage
bonds.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, approved February , nineteen hundred,
being Ordinance No. , entitled "An ordinance supple-
mentary to and in amendment of Ordinance No. 18,
approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
entitled, 'An ordinance to provide for issuing the stock of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and to sell the same
for the purpose of providing means to enable the Western
Maryland Railroad Company to pay and extinguish all of its
third mortgage bonds, amounting to e"ight hundred and
seventy-five thousand dollars, guaranteed by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, when the same shall mature on
the first day of Janua^, nineteen hundred; and also to enable
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to pay and extin-
guish one million dollars of the stock of the Mayor and City

Ordinance to
issue stock of
Mayor and
City Council.
Benefit of
Western
Maryland
Railroad Co.