638 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 21.

WASHINGTON COUNTY RAILROAD.

1866, c. 92, an act to prevent the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors on or near
the line of the Washington County Railroad during the time of its construction, is
repealed by 1867, c. 335 which enacts, that all fines and forfeitures, and all penalties
inflicted by law for the violation of the act hereby repealed, are hereby remitted,
provided, the parties liable to the same, pay to the clerk of the circuit court for
Washington county such amount of money as would have been due and payable
for license had not the law hereby repealed been passed.

WESTERN MARYLAND RAILROAD COMPANY.

1864, c. 314 provides, that the county commissioners of Washington county are
hereby authorized and empowered to endorse or guarantee, on behalf of said county,
the principal and interest upon the second mortgage bonds of the Western Maryland
Railroad Company to an amount not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars, in
such manner and form as they, the said county commissioners, may deem best, and
at any time hereafter as they may deem proper. That if it shall become necessary,
at any time after said commissioners shall have exercised the authority granted
them by the preceding section, to provide for the payment of the principal and
interest upon the bonds so endorsed, the said commissioners shall provide for the
same by levy upon the assessable property in the said county, 1866, c. 19 recites
that the county commissioners of Washington county, did on the twenty-sixth day
of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, pass an order in the following
words, viz: It is ordered this twenty-sixth day of September, A. D., eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-five, by the county commissioners of Washington county, that three
thousand shares of the capital stock of the Western Maryland Railroad Company,
being of the par value of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, be and the same
is hereby subscribed by and in the name of and for Washington county, upon the
condition, nevertheless, that the city of Baltimore, by its corporate authorities, duly
subscribe four thousand shares of said stock, being of the par value of two hundred
thousand dollars, and upon the condition further, that such stock so as aforesaid
subscribed by said county, or the money paid in for the same, shall be first solely
and exclusively applied to the construction and completion of said road within the
limits of Washington county aforesaid, so far as the same may be required in such
construction and completion, and the balance, if any, after such construction and
completion wherever otherwise it may be required in its construction and com-
pletion, and upon the condition further that said subscription be duly authorized
and made lawful by the legislature of Maryland. And it is further ordered, that the
president of said county commissioners be and he is hereby authorized, empowered,
directed and required forthwith to make said subscription to said stock for and in the
name of Washington county, and upon the conditions and limitations aforesaid, and
the said subscription is made upon the further condition that the directors of the said
company be increased, and that two of the said directors be taken from Washington
county. And said act of 1866, c. 19 then provides that the said order of the said county
commissioners of Washington county, is declared valid, and that the county com-
missioners of Washington county, are authorized and empowered to subscribe to the
capital stock of the Western Maryland Railroad Company at the time hereinafter
mentioned, a sum not exceeding the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars on the terms and conditions of said order and this act. That said subscription