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CHAPTER 433.
AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore City to subscribe to the capital stock
of the Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad Com-
pany, or to endorse the bonds of the said company.
SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly of	Authorized to
Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of Bal-	subscribe to capital stock.
timore city be and they are hereby authorized and
empowered to subscribe to the capital stock of the
Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad Company, or to
endorse the first mortgage bonds of the said company,
to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand
dollars, upon such terms and conditions as the said
mayor and city council may by ordinance prescribe.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force.
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 434.
AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to pay the
claims of Charles Cole, Welsh, Baker and Com-
pany, Thomas J. Turner, W. H. Vanderford,
Charles C. Fulton and Son, F. W. Baker, A. S.
Abell and Company, George W. and J. S. Wil-
son, Joseph H. Johnson, William H. Ruby, Long-
necker Brothers, J. Guest King, W. E. Weber,
Keech and Yellott, and Parran and Williams.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be	Directed to Issue warrant.
and he is hereby requested and directed to issue his
warrant upon the Treasurer to pay to Charles Cole
five dollars ; to Welsh, Baker and Company, seven
dollars and fifty cents ; Thomas J. Turner, three
dollars; to W. H. Vanderford, three dollars; to
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