2334 ARTICLE 10.

counted in ascertaining the presence of a quorum necessary for such
election.

1896, ch. 211, sec. 11.

446. At the next regular election for members of the House of Dele-
gates, this act shall be submitted to a vote of the persons legally qualified
to vote at said election for members of the House of Delegates; and at
said election the question of railroad subscription shall be printed upon
the ballots after the list of candidates, with the words, "for railroad sub-
scription," and the words, "against railroad subscription," so printed as
to give each voter a clear opportunity to designate by a cross mark X, in
a sufficient margin at the right of such submitted question, his answer to
the submitted question, and the said vote so cast for railroad subscription
or against railroad subscription, shall be accurately counted by the judges-
of election and duly returned by them to the clerk of the circuit court
of said county, who shall, within twenty days after the receipt of said
return, announce the result of said vote by proclamation, inserted in the
newspapers published in said county. And if it appears that of the num-
ber of ballots cast for and against railroad subscription, a majority shall
be "for railroad subscription." then all the provisions of the aforegoing
sections of this Act shall immediately after such proclamation take and
go into effect.

1896, ch. 211, sec. 12.

447. This Act shall be published in the newspapers published in said,
county for two months preceding the next election to be held for members
of the House of Delegates, and shall be subject to the approval of a
majority of all the members elected to each House of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland at the next session after the said election.

1898, ch. 200.

448. The Act passed by the General Assembly of Maryland at its Jan-
uary, Session, 1896, Chapter 211, entitled "An Act to authorize the
County Commissioners of Dorchester County to subscribe to the capital
stock of the Cambridge and Chesapeake Railroad Company," and which
authorizes a subscription in the name of and for the said county to the
amount of seventy-five thousand dollars to the capital stock of the said
company, is hereby ratified, confirmed and approved.

See sec. 579.

RECORDS BURNED.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 264. 1860, Art. 10, sec. 152.

449. The records, or a copy thereof, of all deeds, wills or other papers
or documents recorded under the laws passed to remedy the evils aris-
ing from the loss and destruction of papers and records occasioned by
burning the Court. House of Dorchester County, shall have the same effect
as evidence or otherwise as the original records or copies thereof would
have had if the same had not been burned or destroyed.