878

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is believed that very able counsel

will be employed by said company to resist the pay-

ment of said taxes ; therefore

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the Governor may appoint such additional

Governor may

counsel, not exceeding one, to assist the State's At-

appoint.

torney and Attorney General in the conduct and

trial of said cause in the Superior Court, and such

other courts as the right of appeal may make neces-

sary to a final decision of such question ; the amount

of compensation to be paid to such additional coun-

sel to be determined by the next General Assembly.

No. 7.

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

In relation to the Eastern Shore Rail Road Com-

pany.

WHEREAS, it has been announced in the news-

papers that the Trustees of the Eastern Shore Rait

Preamble.

Road Company, have gives notice to the bond

holders, that they will issue certificates of indebtness,

bearing interest from the first day of January,

eighteen hundred and seventy-four, for all the over-

due and unpaid coupons of interest upon their bonds,

and

WHEREAS, the State of Maryland is a stockholder

in the said company to an amount exceeding one

Preamble.

hundred and twelve thousand dollars, and is by a

mortgage constituted a preferred stockholder, and

may be prejudiced by the proposed finding of arrears

of interest of the bonded debt of the said company;

therefore,