ART. 14. ] KENT COUNTY. 345

RAIL ROADS.

See under Public Local Laws, Art VI, Caroline County, the act of 1868, c. 298
authorizing the construction of a branch road from some point in Caroline county,
through Queen Anne's county, Kent county and Cecil county to Elkton.

1868, c. 6 is entitled an act to amend section 4 of the act passed at the January
session 1864, c. 29, entitled an act to incorporate the Kent County Rail Road Com-
pany, passed on March 8, 1856, c. 143 to add four sections thereto and to appoint
four new commissioners in the place of four deceased commissioners. Which act of
1868, c. 6 is amended by the act of 1868, c. 383. 1868, c. 9 is entitled an act to
amend an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the county commissioners of
Kent county to subscribe in behalf of said county to the capital stock of the Kent
County Rail Road Company and to issue bonds for the same and to provide for their
redemption, passed at January session, 1867, c. 139 [Sup 578, ] by adding a proviso
to the first section of said act, relating to the issuing of county bonds, and the time
for their payment.

1868, c. 62, la an act to amend section 14 of the act entitled an act to incorporate
the Kent County Rail Road Company, c. 148, passed at the January session 1856,
and to re-enact the same as amended.

1868, c. 283 repeals sections 4 and 5 of 1856, c. 148, and re-enacts the same with
amendments.

And 1868, c. 64 authorizes and requires the comptroller and treasurer to estimate
the bonds of Kent county, that may be issued by the county commissioners of said
county to pay for stock subscribed in the Kent County Rail Road Company, at the
average price at which they may be sold, as cash paid towards the construction of
the Kent County Rail Road

1868, c. 149, is an act to repeal a proviso in section 4 of the act passed at January
session, 1867, c. 150 entitled an act to amend the charter of the Kent County Rail
Road Company, passed Jaguary session, 1866, c. 148 entitled an act to incorporate
the Kent County Rail Road Company, to secure the completion of the said road by
the issuing of additional bonds of the company, and to provide for the payment of
the state's subscription for stock in said company, to waive the state's hen relating
to the state's payment of one-fourth of her subscription for stock in one year, and to
re-enact the said section as thus amended.

By the act of 1868, c. 39 the Delaware Rail Road Company is authorized to extend a
branch rail road across the state line into Kent county. The second section of this
act is amended by the act of 1868, c. 360.

1868, c. 72 authorizes the comptroller and treasurer, when ascertaining the amount
of paid up subscriptions to the capital stock of the Queen Anne's and Kent County
Rail Road Company, to estimate the bonds of Queen Anne's county as cash, at a
specified rate per cent. [Sup. 605. ]