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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Additional

ure a fine of twenty-five dollars shall be imposed

penalty.

upon each offender or offenders so convicted, and if

not paid, to be imprisoned in the county jail until

Proviso.

paid; provided however, that any one so offending,

shall upon conviction before said justice of the peace

have the right of appeal to the Circuit Court of the

county in which said offence shall be Committed,

under the same restrictions governing appeals from

the decisions of justices of the peace.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1876.

CHAPTER 253.

AN ACT to incorporate the purchaser or purchasers

of the Kent County Rail Road Company into a

new body politic, under the name of the Kent

County Rail Road Company, or such other as they

may adopt, and to allow the same to be consoli-

dated with the Smyrna and Delaware Bay Rail

Road Company, and to incorporate the "said com-

pany when so consolidated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

New body
politic.

Maryland, That the purchaser or purchasers, and

his or their associates of any railroad belonging to

the Kent County Rail Road Company, whether such

sale be under the decree or order of any court of

competent jurisdiction, or under the provisions of

any mortgage or deed of trust duly executed, shall,

upon the confirmation of such sale, or the execution

of the deed or deeds purporting to convey the

property so sold, become a new body politic and

corporate in fact and in law, under the name of the

Kent County Rail Road Company, or such other as

they may thereafter adopt, and shall be deemed and

considered the stockholders of the capital stock ot