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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and are authorized to adopt such plan of operation, assess-

ments, fines and penalties, receipts and expenses and costs for

obtaining the funeral benefits as it deems sufficient and ex-

pedient, and shall have all the benefits of the laws applicable

to fraternal beneficiary organizations, and be amenable under

the same.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 25, 1904.

CHAPTER 175.

AN ACT amendatory of an Act passed at January Session

1868, entitled "An Act incorporating the Hagerstown and

Cross Roads Turnpike Company by adding an additional

section thereto to be known and designated as Section 6A,

to read as follows:

6A. The Hagerstown and Cross Roads Turnpike Company

Rights of a

is hereby authorized to purchase and occupy for the purpose

turnpike
company.

of a gate keeper's house not more than one-half acre of land

contiguous to the line of said road, at such point as they may

select for a toll gate, and in the event of their failure or ina-

bility to obtain the same by the consent of the owner thereof

upon a price agreed upon by said company and the owner of

said land, it shall be lawful for the said Hagerstown and Cross

Roads Turnpike Company to sue out of the Circuit Court

of Washington County an inquisition for the assessment and

valuation of said one-half acre of land, and upon the compli-

ance by said company with the finding of the jury in such

inquisition, by the payment or tender in payment to the owner

thereof the amount prescribed, together with all costs and

charges therein, it shall be lawful for the said company to

occupy and possess the said piece of land for the purposes

aforesaid.

Approved March 25, 1904.

CHAPTER 176.

AN ACT to regulate the salary of the State's Attorney for

Caroline County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That the State's Attorney for Caroline County shall