318 DORCHESTER COUNTY. [ART 10.

deducted from that portion of the appropriation to be made under the provisions of
the constitution of the stale to St. Mary's county.

By 1868, c 150 a corporation is created and chartered by the name of the "Southern
Maryland Rail Road Company, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and
working a railroad from some point in Prince George's county to Point Lookout.

ARTICLE X.

Dorchester County

ROADS. 185 Road supervisors duties compensa- tion . neglect, &c , of duty penalty pro- viso. SHERIFF. 210. Keeping prisoners VIENNA. 212 Town incorporated 213. Bounds of town 214 Commissioners.

216 Voters. 216 Vacancy. 217 How elections conducted. 218 President of board. 210 Clerk 220 Taxes 221 Collector 2.22 Bailiff. 221 Powers of commissioners proviso. 224. Streets. 225 Dogs and bitches. 220 Fines and fol failures '227. Meetings of commissioners.

ALMSHOUSE.

By the act of 1868, c. 49, the county commissioners of "Dorchester county are
authorized and empowered to sell and com ey the property known as the almshouse
property of said county, and invest so much thereof as may be necessary in the
purchasing or building another almshouse for said county in some desirable and
healthy locality. [Sup. 533 ]

DORCHESTER AND DELAWARE RAIL ROAD.

1868, c. 184 recites that whereas a contract for the construction of the Dorchester
and Delaware Rail Road was entered into on the twelfth day of October last, and con-
siderable progress has already been made in the construction of the said road; and
whereas the Dorchester and Delaware Rail Road Company has negotiated a portion
of the bonds of Dorchester county, issued under the provisions of c. 27, of the act of
the general assembly passed at January session, 1867, [Sup. 538,] at their par value,
and the remaining portion of the said bonds are still in the possession of the said
company, undisposed of; and whereas the said company has never received any
payment on account of the state's subscription to the capital stock of said company,