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was obtained by fraud, or any material misrepre-	Proviso
sentation as to the amount of prior subscriptions fo
said railroad, or as to the amount of prior sub-
scriptions to the capital stock of said company.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.	In force
Approved, April 6th, 1874.

CHAPTER 197.
AN ACT to amend an act passed January session,
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, chapter three
hundred and seven, entitled " an act for incorpo-
rating the Western Maryland College.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the. General Assembly of
Maryland, That section first, of chapter three hun-	Repealed and
dred and seven, passed January session, eighteen	re-anacted
hundred and sixty-eight, entitled " an act for incor-
porating the Western Maryland College," be and
the same is hereby repealed, and re-enacted to read
as follows :
A College, or general Seminary of learning, by
the name of the Western Maryland College, be and	Established
is hereby established at or near Westminster, in Car-
roll county, in this State, upon the following funda-
mental principles, namely :
First. The Western Maryland College shall be	Founded and
founded and maintained forever upon a most liberal	maintained
plan, for the benefit of the youth of every religious
denomination, who shall be freely admitted to equal
privileges and advantage of education, and to all the
literary honors of the College, without requiring or
enforcing any religious or civil test, or urging their
attendance upon any particular place of religious
worship or service, other than that in which they
have been educated, or which they have the appro-