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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
or delivered to the President and Directors of the
said company until the whole line of the said railroad
is under contract, with a reasonable prospect of its
completion from the town of Vienna to the point at
which it intersects the Dorchester and Delaware
Railroad.
SEC. 2. And he it enacted', That the said bonds, when
issued, shall be exempt from all taxation for county
purposes.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That at the next regu-
lar election for members of the House of Delegates,
this Act shall be submitted to a vote of the persons
legally qualified to vote at said election for members
of the House of Delegates, and at said election it
shall be lawful for each person qualified to vote, as
aforesaid, besides the vote which he may cast for the
candidates at said election, to cast a separate and dis-
tinct ballot, on which shall be written or printed the
words, " For Railroad Subscription," or the words,
" Against Railroad Subscription," as the case may
be; and it shall be the duty of the Judges of Elec-
tion in said county to receive said separate ballots,
and deposit the same in boxes different from those
in which the ballots cast for candidates at said elec-
tion are deposited; and the said Judges shall accu-
rately count and duly return to the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for said county, the number of votes
cast for railroad subscription, and the number of
votes cast against railroad subscription, and the said
clerk shall, within twenty days after the receipt of
said returns, by proclamation, inserted in the news-
papers published in said county, announce the result
of the said vote.
SEC. 4. And he it enacted. That this Act shall be
published in the newspapers published in the said
county for two months preceding the next election
of members of the House of Delegates, and shall be
subject to the approval of a majority of all the mem-
ber's elected to each House of the General Assembly
of Maryland at its next session after said election.
Approved April 1, 1872.
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