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run all its cars through from one terminus of the road to the other.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this act shall have effect at and from the date of its passage. Approved March 23, 1876.	In force.

CHAPTER 119.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to pay the
claims of divers editors of newspapers in the State
of Maryland, for publishing the act entitled "an
act to amend section eight, of article four, of the
constitution of the State of Maryland, " passed at
January session eighteen hundred and seventy-
four, chapter three hundred and sixty-four, au-
thorized and directed by the Governor, under the
provisions of section one, article fourteen, of the
constitution, and the proclamation of the Gover-
nor announcing the adoption of the amendment by
the people.

WHEREAS, an act was passed by the General As- sembly of Maryland, at January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and sixty-four, submitting a proposed amendment to the constitution to a vote of the people of the State, and in pursuance of said act and of article fourteen of the constitution, the Governor of Maryland caused due notice to be given to the qualified voters of the State of the pendence of said constitutional amend- ment, and after the adoption of the amendment by the people, made proclamation of the result by pub- lication in various newspapers within the State, in conformity with law, but no provision was made in such act of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and sixty-four, for defraying the expense of said publications, therefore, 12

Preamble.