ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 789

submitted to and approved by the Judges of the Circuit Court of said county, or a majority thereof, as in accordance with the provisions of this Article. Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall only apply to the counties of Caroline, Kent, Tal- bot, Frederick, Prince George's, Queen Anne's, Charles and Harford County; and that this Act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 4, 1870.		Exception.
CHAPTER 442.
AN ACT to confirm an Act passed by the General Assembly of Virginia, entitled "An Act to in- corporate the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Com- pany," passed February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; also to confirm an Act passed by the Legislature of West Virginia, entitled "An Act to authorize the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company to construct their road through the State of West Virginia to the Poto- mac River, &c.," passed February twenty-five, eighteen hundred and seventy, and to authorize the said Company to extend their road across the Potomac River, and to Hagerstown, in Washington County, in this State.
WHEREAS, an Act has passed the General Assem- bly of West Virginia, entitled "An Act to au- thorize the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company to construct their road through the State of West Virginia to the Potomac River," and to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Jefferson County to submit to a vote of the people, at a special election, the question of a subscription to the capital stock of said Company, as follows: An Act to authorize the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company to con- struct their road through the State of West Vir- ginia to the Potomac River, &c., passed February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy.	Preamble.