JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 531
ceedings in such suitor action, issue, presentment or
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indictment may be so transmitted, shall hear and de-
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termine the same in like manner as if such suit or
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action, issue, presentment or indictment had been
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originally instituted therein ; and the General Assem-
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bly shall make such modification of existing law as
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may be necessaryto regulate and give force to this pro-
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vision.
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SEC. 2. And be it farther enacted by the authority
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aforesaid, That the said foregoing section, hereby
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Submitted to
voters
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proposed as an amendment to the Constitution, shall
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be, at the next general election to be held in this
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State, submitted to the legal and qualified voters
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thereof for their adoption or rejection, in pursuance
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of the direction contained in article fourteen of the
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Constitution of this State; and at said general elec-
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tion, the vote on said proposed amendment to the
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Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon each bal-
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Vote by ballot.
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lot there shall be written or printed the words, " for
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the Constitutional amendment," or " against the
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Constitutional amendment," as the voter shall elect;
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and immediately after said election due returns shall
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be made to the Governor, of the vote for and against
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said proposed amendment, as directed by the said
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fourteenth article of the Constitution.
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Approved April 11th, 1874.
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CHAPTER 365.
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AN ACT to incorporate the Maryland Canal Com-
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pany.
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WHEREAS, The State of Maryland in giving her
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Preamble.
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assent to the charter of the Chesapeake and Ohio
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Canal Company, expressly reserved the right of the
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State to charter and construct a lateral canal to con-
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nect with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, at some
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point within the District of Columbia, which reserva-
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tion was assented to by the Congress of the United
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States; and,
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