JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 358.

AN ACT to amend the Charter and extend the powers of
the Frederick County Telephone and Telegraph Company,
a corporation formed under Article 23 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, entitled "Corporations," the
said Charter being recorded in the Records of Corporations
of Frederick County in Liber No. 2, folio 401, by adding
two Articles to said Charter.

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SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maty -
land, That the charter of the Frederick County Telephone
and Telegraph Company, a corporation formed under Article
23 of the Code of Public General Laws of the State of Mary-
land, entitled "Corporations," and which is recorded in one
of the Records of Corporations of Frederick County in Liber
No. 2, folio 401, be and the same is hereby amended by adding
to the same two Articles to be known as Articles 7 and 8, as
follows:

Frederick
County Tele-
phone and
Telegraph
Company.
Amended.

Article 7. That the directors of the Frederick County Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company be and they are hereby author-
ized to issue and sell from time to time, in their discretion,
the mortgage bonds of this company to an amount not exceed-
ing twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as they may
deem proper, for the improvement, equipment and extension
of their telephone lines and business, and to execute a mort-
gage to secure the payment of said bonds arid the interest
thereon upon all the property, rights, franchises, tolls and
revenues of said company .

Authority
to issue and
sell their
mortgage
bonds to a
certain
amount, etc.

Article 8. That said bonds shall bear interest at such rate,
be payable at such times and in such denomination as the
board of directors of this company may determine.

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

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 359.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Chapter
two hundred and seventy-eight of the Acts of eighteen
hundred and ninety-six, entitled an "Act to confirm and
amend the Charter of the Cherry Hill, Elkton and Chesa-
peake City Electric Railway Company of Cecil County."

Shall bear
interest.