324 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

	CHAPTER 184. AN ACT to authorize the Comptroller and Trea- surer, when ascertaining the amount of paid up subscriptions to the capital stock of the Dorches- ter and Delaware Railroad Company, to estimate the bonds of Dorchester County, which have been disposed of by the said Company as cash, and those remaining in the possession of the said Company as cash, at a specified rate per cent.
Preamble.	WHEREAS, A contract for the construction of the Dorchester and Delaware Railroad was entered into on the twelfth day of October last, and consider- able progress has already been made in the con- struction of the said road ; and whereas, the Dor- chester and Delaware Railroad Company has ne- gotiated a portion of the bonds of Dorchester County, issued under the provisions of Chapter twenty-seven, of the Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January session, eigh- teen hundred and sixty-seven, at their par value, and the remaining portion of the said bonds are still in the possession of the said Company, undis- posed of; and whereas, the said Company has never received any payment on account of the State's subscription to the capital stock of said Company,
Amount paid,	SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That in ascertaining at any time the amount actually paid by other subscribers than the State of Maryland to the capital stock of the Dor- chester and Delaware Railroad Company, for the purpose of determining the amount due and pay- able at such time, upon the State's subscription to the said capital stock, according to the provisions of Section twenty-seven of Chapter fifty-two, of the Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January session, eighteen hundred and sixty- six, the Comptroller and the Treasurer be and they are hereby authorized and required to estimate and allow, as part of the amount actually paid by the other subscribers aforesaid, the amount realized in cash by the said Company from the sale of such