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No. 71. An act to repeal section one hundred and eighty

of article thirty, of the supplement to the Code of

Public General Laws, relating to Sabbath breaking,

and to re-enact the same with amendments...............

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No. 72. An act authorizing the Baltimore, Chesapeake,

and Delaware Bay Railroad Company, incorporated

under the provisions of the act of the General As-

sembly of the State of Maryland, passed on the fourth

day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter

four hundred and seventy-six, to charge such tolls on

freight and passengers as they may deem advisable

and proper ; to reduce the par value of the capital

stock to twenty-five dollars per share ; to establish its

principal office in Baltimore city : to lease, buy and

build wharves, houses and shops, and to charter, pur-

chase and hold steamships, steamboats and barges

for the business and uses of its road ; to provide tor

the condemnation of land for the use of its railroad;

to provide for the construction of crossings and bridges
along said railroad, and keeping the same in repair ;

prescribing penalties for injuries done to the said rail-

road and its property ; authorizing the said company

to unite; connect and consolidate with the Baltimore,

Chesapeake and Delaware Bay Railroad Company,

incorporated by the Legislature of Delaware, in March,

eighteen hundred and seventy-three, so as to make

one company ; to connect, unite and consolidate with

other Railroad Companies in or out of this State; to

lease out their own road, and to lease and operate

other railroads in or out of this State ; to issue mort-

gage bonds with coupons attached, for the building,

equipping and maintaining their railroad, steamships,

steamboats and barges, for such amount and on such

terms as may be deemed necessary and proper, and to

pledge the property of the said company, and its fran-

chises and rights, to secure and pay said bonds ; to

reduce the number of directors in the said company,

provide for the election of the President thereof, and

also of the officers of the consolidated company, and

to repeal all acts inconsistent with this act................

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No. 73. An act to add a sub-section to section one of

article —— , of the Code of Public General Laws, title

"General Assembly," sub-title "Mileage"...............

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