JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

provisions of this Act shall read, "For Municipal Ownership
of Lighting Plant," and all ballots cast against the provisions
of this Act shall read, "Against Municipal Ownership of
Lighting Plant," and if at said election the number of ballots
cast upon said question and reading "For Municipal Owner-
ship of Lighting Plant" shall exceed the number of ballots
cast upon said question and reading "Against Municipal Own-
ership of Lighting Plant," then this Act shall immediately go
into force and effect ; but if at said election the number of bal-
lots cast upon said question and reading "Against Municipal
Ownership of Lighting Plant" exceed the number of ballots
cast upon said question and reading "For Municipal Owner-
ship of Lighting Plant," then this Act shall be void. And it
shall be the duty of the Mayor of Hagerstown to give eight
days' notice before said election of the submission of said
question, and in said notice it shall be sufficient to give the
title of this Act and the manner in which the ballots cast
thereon shall read; said election may be held at the regular
election for Mayor of Hagerstown, or at a special election to
be called by the Mayor within the period prescribed by this
section.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 13, 1900.

CHAPTER 76.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
two, Chapter three hundred and eighteen of the Acts of
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled an "Act to
incorporate the Realty Trust Co. of Maryland," and to
add to the same an additional section, to be known as Sec-
tion twenty-one, changing the name of said corporation.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section two, Chapter three hundred and eighteen,
of the Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled an
"Act to incorporate the 'Realty Trust Co. of Maryland,' " be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, so that the
same shall read as follows :

Realty Trust
Company of
Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said
company shall consist of two thousand shares at fifty dollars
each, being one hundred thousand dollars, with privileges to
increase the same from time to time to two million dollars,

Capital stock.
Privilege to in-
crease same.