1831.

LAWS OF MARYLAND,

CHAP. 224.

into effect the provisions of the act of seventeen hundred

and eighty-nine, chapter fifteen, and the supplement of eigh-

teen hundred and one, chapter twenty-nine; to extend the

said drain or branch, from a place called Stratton, in the

possession of Solomon Scott, in Queen Anne's county, down

to, and through a tract of land to a place called the Sleeper.

CHAPTER 224.

Passed Mar, 7,1832

A supplement to the act, entitled An act for the promotion of

Internal Improvement.

Certificates of

Section 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

stock to be issued.

ryland, That the treasurer of the western shore, be, and

he is hereby authorised and directed, whenever application

shall be made to him for that purpose, by the president and

directors of the Baltimore and Susquehanna Rail Road

Company, or as soon as conveniently may be thereafter, to

issue, and deliver to the said company, certificates of the

stock of the state, bearing interest from the first day of

March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, payable quarter-

ly, for an amount equal to the whole of the residue, which

shall then be unpaid of the stock subscribed for, on behalf

of the state of Maryland, in the said company, and which

said certificate shall be redeemable, and the premium there-

on subject to the same disposition, as is provided by the act,

to which this is a supplement.

Security accepted,

Sec. 2. And be it enacted. That the security heretofore

given by the said company, to the mayor and city council

of Baltimore, for the joint and equal benefit of the said

mayor and city council and the state of Maryland, be, and

the same is hereby accepted in the manner, and upon the

terms provided by an ordinance of the said city, passed on

the twenty-fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-

one, entitled, An ordinance relating to the Baltimore and

Susquehanna Rail Road stock, as a security for the pay-

ment of the interest quarterly, on so much of the stock to

Quarterly interest
howpay a bit.

' be issued by virtue of this act, as shall be equal to the dif-

ference, actually existing at the time of such quarterly pay-

ments, between the amount of the instalments paid by the

state of Maryland, and the amount of the instalments paid

by the individual stockholders, and the said quarterly inter-

est shall be regularly paid by the said company into the

treasury of the western shore, at least ten days before it

shall be payable by the state.