EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 374-

AN ACT authorizing the Bachman Valley Railroad Company

to cease its operations and to sell and dispose of its property.

WHEREAS, The Bachman Valley Railroad Company owns a

Bachman Val-

railroad in Carroll County, Maryland, about three miles in

ley Railroad
Company.

length, extending from Ebbrale, in Manchester District. Car-

roll County, Maryland, to a point on the boundary line be-

tween Maryland and Pennsylvania ; and

WHEREAS, The said Bachman Yallev Railroad Company

Loss to stock-

ceased active operations a number of years past and cannot

holders.

be conducted except at a great loss to its stockholders ; and

WHEREAS, Its insignificant length and operations make its

Insignificant

continued existence no longer of public interest and value ;

length.

therefore,

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

Authorized to

land, That the Bachman Valley Railroad Company is author-

cease opera-
tions.

ized to cease its operations as a railroad and to sell and dis-

pose of its property of every nature and kind ; provided, that

three-fourths of all the stock of said Bachman Valley Rail-

road Company shall be first voted at a meeting of stock-

holders called for that purpose in favor of both ceasing the

operations of said railroad and of selling and disposing of

its property.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.

CHAPTER 375.

AN ACT to authorize and require the County Commissioners

of Calvert County to levy a sum of money to build a

school house for white children at or near Bowens, in Elec-

tion District No. 2, to replace School house No. I.

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

Levying a sum

land, That the County Commissioners of Calvert County are

of money to

hereby authorized and required to levy upon the assessable

build school
house.

property of Calvert County, at the next levy, the sum of five

hundred dollars for the use of the School Commissioners

of said county to build a school house for white children at

or near Bowens, in District No. 2, to replace School No. 1.