42 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 37.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Governor
to appoint an additional Justice of the Peace in
the fifth Election District of Baltimore County.

Additional Justice.		SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Governor be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint an additional Justice of the Peace in and for the fifth Election District of Baltimore County, in addition to those now required to be appointed by existing laws.
In force.		Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved February 19, 1870.
	CHAPTER 38.
	AN ACT to amend an Act passed March ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty, to incorporate the Potomac Steamboat Company, and to extend the charter of the same as amended.
Issue bonds.	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Potomac Steamboat Com- pany be and are hereby authorized to issue bonds of one thousand dollars each, to an amount not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent, per annum, which said bonds may be disposed of by the Potomac Steamboat Company in such manner as the stockholders may in general or in special meeting direct.
Mortgage.	Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That the Po- tomac Steamboat Company are hereby empowered, for the purpose of securing the payment of both the principal and the interest of the bonds author- ized by this Act, to create a mortgage or lien upon any portion or upon the whole of their property, either by deed or trust, or otherwise, as may be deemed most judicious; and further, for the pur- pose of promoting the sale of the said bonds, the