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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Issue warrant

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, ''That upon receipt of the certificate of the
Secretary of State, that the services have been per-
formed, and of the justice and propriety of the claims
presented, the Comptroller of the Treasury be and
he is hereby directed to issue his warrant upon the
Treasurer of this State for the sum of five thousand,
six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be
required, to pay the claims of the editors aforesaid,
for and on account of the said publication.

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 120.

AN ACT to incorporate the Elkton and Delaware
Junction Railroad Company.

Commission-
ers.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Jacob Tome, Henry H. Brady, Wil-
liam J. Jones, Thomas Whitteridge, Benjamin H.
Latrobe, William J. Hooper, Thomas Kelso, Enoch
Pratt and Thomas Donaldson be, and they are hereby
appointed commissioners, under the direction of
whom subscriptions may be received to the capital
stock of the Elkton and Delaware Junction Railroad

Open books.

Company hereby incorporated, and they or a major-
ity of them may cause books to be opened at such
time and place as they may direct for the purpose of
receiving subscriptions to the said capital stock of
said company, after having given such notice of the
times and places of opening the same as they may
deem proper, and if such subscription to the capital
stock of the said company as is necessary for its in-
corporation, be not previously obtained, the said
books may be opened from time to time during the
period of three years from the passage of this act at
the discretion of said commissioners or a majority of