EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 247.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Baltimore and Freder-

ick Electric Railway Company and grant additional powers

thereto.

WHEREAS, By a certificate of incorporation filed for record

in the office of the Secretary of the State on the fifteenth day

of January, 1902, the Baltimore and Frederick Electric Rail-

Baltimore and

way Company was incorporated for the purpose of con

Electric Rail-

structing a railroad between Baltimore City and the City of

way.

Frederick, in the State of Maryland, and to run through Bal-

timore City and Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick Counties,

all in the State of Maryland ; and

WHEREAS, The capital stock mentioned in said certificate

of incorporation is one million five hundred thousand dollars,

Capital stock
insufficient.

which said capitalization is found to be insufficient for the

purposes of the construction of the said road.

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

Increase of

land, That the capital stock of the said Baltimore and Fred-

stock.

erick Electric Railway Company shall be two million dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Baltimore and

Frederick Electric Railway Company is hereby declared to

Declared to be
a corporation.

be a corporation for the uses and purposes, and with all the

rights now appertaining thereto by law as a railroad in, by

and under said charter with perpetual continuance, subject,

however, and only to the constitutional rights of amendment

and repeal.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.

CHAPTER 248.

AN ACT to prohibit the playing of the game commonly called

"crap" in Somerset County.

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

land, That it shall be unlawful for anyone to play in Somerset
County" the game commonly called "crap ;" and anyone vio-

Unlawful to
play "crap"
in Somerset

lating this Act shall, upon conviction before a justice of the

County.

peace for said county, be fined a sum of twenty-five dollars

in each offense and stand committed to the county jail until

said fine and costs are paid.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.