524 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

	CHAPTER 298. AN ACT supplementary to an Act entitled an "Act to incorporate the Maryland and Dela- ware Railroad Company," passed January Ses- sion, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, Chapter two hundred and seventy-four.
Branch road.	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Maryland and Delaware Railroad Company be, and they are hereby author- ized to locate and construct a Branch Road, to diverge from some point in Caroline County, and to run through the counties of Queen Anne, Kent and Cecil, and connect with the Philadelphia, Wil- mington and Baltimore Railroad at or near the town of Elkton, in Cecil County.
In force.	Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 30, 1868.

	CHAPTER 299. AN ACT to repeal the Act of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, Chapter two hundred and nine- ty, entitled an "Act to add a new article to the Code of Public General Laws, to be entitled Public Roads," except so far as said Act relates to Somerset County, and to enact the following Sections in lieu thereof.
Public roads.	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Act of Assembly, passed at January Session, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, Chapter two hundred and ninety, entitled an "Act to add a new article to the Code of Public General Laws, to be entitled Public