704

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

No. 12.

In reference to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Company.

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,

Directed to
enforce.

That the Attorney General be, and he is hereby

directed, to proceed at once to enforce by legal pro-

cess, the payment to the State, out of the net profits

of the Washington Branch Railroad for the six

months, ending September 30th, 1875, the State's

proportionate dividend upon the shares of stock of

said road held by the State, as well as all other divi-

dends that should properly have been made, and

paid over to the State upon its said stock at any

time, whether semi-annually or tri-annually, as the

same may have been from time to time required to

be paid to the stockholders of said Washington

Branch, by section five, of chapter three hundred

and thirty, of the Acts of Assembly, passed at Janu-

ary session, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.

No. 13.

WHEREAS, By an act of the General Assembly,

Preamble

passed at December session, eighteen hundred and

twenty-six, chapter one hundred and twenty-three,

the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company was

incorporated for the purposes and with the powers

therein named, more especially in section four-

teen, of said act, and section eighteen of the

same; and

WHEREAS, By section two of said act, it is declared

Preamble

that the said company "shall be capable in law of

purchasing, holding, selling, leasing and convey-

ing estates, real, personal and mixed, so far. as