THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 881

thousand dollars ; and to Calvert County, the sum of one hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars ; and as soon as it shall appear to the Treasurer of this State, by the affidavit of the President of any railroad company, now chartered, or which may hereafter be chartered in said counties respectively, that bona fide subscriptions to the capital stock of any such company, equal in amount to the sum by this Act authorized and directed to be given to such county, shall be actually made either in land or money, the Treasurer of this State shall be and he is hereby authorized and required, in the name and behalf of the State, upon the recom- mendation of the County Commissioners of said
county making such application, to subscribe for so many shares of the capital stock of the company as shall amount to the sum which, by this Act, is distributed and applied to said county ; and the said Treasurer shall, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, pay the installments on each share of the capital stock of said company or companies, for which he shall subscribe as afore- said, on the warrant of the Comptroller, which the latter officer is hereby directed to issue, as the said installments may be called for by the County Commissioners of said county and- agreeable to the provisions of the Act incorporating said com-	State to sub- scribe.
pany or companies ; provided, that the Treasurer shall not at any time pay upon the State's sub- scription to the capital stock of any of the said companies a greater amount than shall have actually been subscribed and paid, as required by this Act, by other subscribers to the capital stock of the said companies ; and provided further, that the said Treasurer shall not pay more than one-fourth of the whole amount appropriated under this Act in any one year.	Proviso.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That if the whole or any portion of the fund appropriated by this Act shall not be demanded, according to the pro- visions of this Act, by any of the counties referred to, that then, and in that case, the aforesaid five hundred thousand dollars set apart for and in- tended to be applied to works of Internal Improve- ments in said counties, shall be held sacred, and the faith of the State pledged that the said amount shall be exclusively devoted to works of Internal 56	Faith of State pledged.