CHAPTER 344.

AN ACT to provide for the running of the Balti-
more city passenger railway cars on Sunday,
supplementary to an Act entitled, an Act to in-
corporate the Baltimore City Passenger Rail-
way Company, passed February thirteenth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, chapter seventy-
one.

Passed Mar.
22,1867.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the President and Directors of
the Baltimore City Passenger Railway Company
be authorized to run their cars on Sunday to the
several termini of their routes, and to provide a
sufficient number for the accommodation of the
people of the city.

Cars to run
on Sunday.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the provisions
of this bill shall be submitted to the people of
Baltimore for ratification at the first election to be
held in said city next after the passage of this
Act, and due notice of said election shall be pub-
lished by the Sheriff of Baltimore city, and said
citizens of Baltimore shall vote on the question of
of running the cars on Sunday by expression in
writing or printed, the words "For running the
cars on Sunday," or "Against running the cars
in Sunday," as the case may be; and the several
Judges of Election of said city shall receive, ac-
curately count and duly return number of bal-
lots so cast to the clerk of the Superior Court of
Baltimore city, who shall within ten days after
said election make a due return to the Governor of
the number of ballots cast for and against the run-
ning of the said cars of the Baltimore City Pas-
senger Railway Company on Sunday.

To be sub-
mitted to the
people.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted. That so soon as the
Governor shall receive the return of the number
of ballots cast as above provided, it shall be the
duty of the Governor to count and cast up the
same, and it therefore it shall appear to the Gov-
ernor that a majority of votes have been cast by
the legal voters of Baltimore city in favor of the
running of the card as berein set forth, then it

Duty of the
Governor.