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said terms, juries shall be summoned and returned in
the mode and manner prescribed by law.
SEC. 55. There shall be annually six regular equity
or chancery terms of said Circuit Court, the first of
which after the March term of the present year,
shall commence on the first Monday of April, the
second on the second Monday in May, the third on	Equity terms.
the fourth Monday of July, the fourth on the third
Monday of September, the fifth on the third Monday
of November, and the sixth on the second Monday
of February, and to which said equity or chancery
terms of said court, all equity process shall be made
returnable respectively ; and the said Circuit Court,
as a court of equity, shall be considered as always
open for the transaction of business therein.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.	In force
Approved, March 19th, 1874,

CHAPTER 85.
AN ACT to authorize and empower the County
Commissioners of Washington county, to subscribe
to the capital stock of turnpike companies in said
county.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Wash-	To subscribe
ington county, be, and they are hereby authorized	to capital stock
and empowered to subscribe to the capital stock of	of turnpike companies
any turnpike company already organized, or here-
after to be organized in said county, in the name and
for the benefit of said county, such sum or sums of
money as they in their discretion may deem proper,
not to exceed in any case, four hundred dollars for	Limit.
each mile of road that may be made, and they shall
be entitled to be represented at all meetings of the
stockholders of said companies by the County Com-
missioners for the time being, or by such person or
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