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LAWS OF. MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 117.

AN ACT to appoint an additional Justice of the
Peace for the State of Maryland, in and for Som-
erset county, and in the eighth election district
thereof.

Additional
justice of the
peace.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That an additional justice of the peace,
shall be appointed by the Governor of this State, in
the manner now provided by law for the appointment
of justices of the peace in this State, in and for the
eighth election district of Somerset county, whose
term of office shall begin on the same day as that of
the other justices of the peace of said county.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 23, 1876.

CHAPTER 118.

AN ACT supplementary to an act entitled " an act
to incorporate the Citizens Railway Company of
Baltimore city, " passed at the January session,
eighteen hundred and seventy.

Amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the fourth section of the act, entitled
" an act to incorporate the Citizens Railway Com-
pany of Baltimore city, " passed at the January ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and seventy, to which this is
a supplement, be and the same is hereby so amended
as to authorize and allow the Citizens Railway Com-
pany of Baltimore city, in its discretion, to increase
the amount of its capital stock, to a sum not exceed-
ing five hundred thousand dollars; provided the said
company shall from and after the passage of this act