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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the Company may sell and dispose of the additional capital provided for by the twentieth Section of its charter, in such mode as may from time to time be determined by the President and Directors, or a majority of them, and one act of the said President and Directors in reference to an increase of the capital stock shall not be deemed an exhaustion of their power under the said Section, and the said President and Direc- tors, or a majority of them, may increase the cap- ital stock to such amount beyond that specified in the thirteenth Section of the charter, as they or a majority of them may deem necessary for the con- struction of the road.	Additional capital.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 30, 1868.	In force.
CHAPTER 339; AN ACT to authorize the American Life Insurance and Trust Company to settle any outstanding transaction in which it may be interested.
SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Act incorporating the American Life Insurance and Trust Company, and the several supplements thereto, be and the same are hereby so far revived as to enable the Attorney of the said Company to settle any transaction which may still remain open and outstanding ; provided, that the twenty cents on every hundred dollars of the capital stock of said Company be paid as pro- vided for, by and under the Act of the General As- sembly, passed eighteen hundred and thirty-five, Chapter two hundred and tbrty ; and provided, that nothing in this Act shall affect any suit now pending in equity, or affect any plea now pleaded or which may hereafter be pleaded in any suit now instituted. 39	Revived.