THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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condition and repair for travel, nor in any event
until said Turnpike Road is fully completed to the
village of Reisterstown ; and the question of de-
claring a dividend shall be determined by the
stockholders at large at the annual meeting in

January for the election of officers, at which rneet-
ing a full statement shall be exhibited of the finan-
ces.of the said Company, which shall he submitted
to the examination of a committee of the stock-
holders, whose report and action of the meeting
thereof shall be recorded in a book to be kept i'or
that purpose and shall ho published once in some
county paper.

Full state-
ment.

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That as soon as
fifteen thousand dollars of the capital stock of
said Company shall have been subscribed by pri-
vate stockholders, the County Commissioners of
Baltimore County are hereby authorized, subject
to the provisions of Article third, Section fifty- four
of the Constitution of Maryland, to subscribe, on
behalf of said County, such an amount of money
that six per cent, thereof shall equal the average
yearly sum expended during the last four years by
the said Commissioners upon the said road or
roads upon the bed or beds of which said Western
Run and Reisterstown Turnpike is built from the
point of its departure from the Western Run Turn-
pike to its termination at Reisterstown to the capital
stock of said Company and to levy the same upon.

Private Stock-
holders.

Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage, and the
General Assembly of Maryland reserves to itself
the right to alter, amend or repeal this Act at
pleasure.
Approved February 18, 1868.

In force and
reservation.

CHAPTER 48.
AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to pay
Benjamin Standford, Tax Collector for Harford
County, for over payment into the Treasury for
the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Comptroller be and he is

Appropria-
tion ,