JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 341

CHAPTER 225.
AN ACT to approve an act passed January session,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter two
hundred and forty-five, entitled " an act to au-
thorize the County Commissioners of Anne
Arundel county, to subscribe to the capital stock
of the Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad Com-
pany, " as provided by section fifty-four of article
three, of the Constitution.
SECTION 1. And be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the act passed January session,	Ratified con-
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter two hun-	firmed and ap- proved
dred and forty-five, entitled " an act to authorize the
County Commissioners of Anne Arundel county,
to subscribe to the capital stock of the Baltimore
and Drum Point Railroad Company, " and which au-
thorizes a subscription in the name of and for the
said county, to the amount of two hundred thousand
dollars, to the capital stock of the said company,
upon certain terms and conditions therein specified,
be and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed and
approved.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whereas, a
difference of opinion may be held- in regard to the	Difference of
meaning and intention of the language of the ninth	opinion
section of said act of eighteen hundred and seventy-
two, chapter two hundred and forty-five, prescribing
that certain instalments of the said bonds shall be
delivered to the said company, upon the grading or
completion of certain portions of the line of the said
railroad lying within the limits of said county, it is
hereby expressly provided, that said section shall be
construed to mean and apply to the entire length of
the line of said railroad, extending from the corporate
limits of Baltimore city, to the boundary line be
tween Anne Arundel and Calvert counties.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall	In force
take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved, April 6th, 1874.