JOINT RESOLUTIONS

Assented to by the General Assembly of Maryland, at a Session

begun on the 5th day of January 1876, and ended

on the 3rd day of April, 1876.

No. 1.
WHEREAS, It has been represented that the subscrip-
tion by the Treasurer of this State to the capital	Preamble
stock of the Southern Maryland Railroad Com-
pany, to the amount of one hundred and sixty-
three thousand dollars, under the provisions of the
Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, ap-
proved March 30th, 1868, entitled an act to aid in
construction of works of internal improvements
in St. Mary's, Charles and Calvert counties, was
procured by false and fraudulent representations
of certain officers of said company, and that the
said sum of one hundred and sixty-three thousand
dollars has been paid over to said company by the
State Treasurer, upon the like false and fraudu-
lent statements of certain officers of said company;
and
WHEREAS, It is represented that the said Southern
Maryland Railroad Company has ceased all work	Preamble.
on its road for nearly two years past, is bankrupt,
and yet has not expended said sum of one hundred
and sixty-three thousand dollars upon its railroad,
but has misappropriated the same; and