APPENDIX—DORCHESTER AND KENT. 2197

wills, as the case may be, the distance each witness summoned by
him resides from the place of holding said court, and the clerk or
register shall return a list of said witnesses, with the distance of
their respective residences, to the county commissioners of Dor-
chester county.

WORKS OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.

BALTIMORE AND EASTERN SHORE RAILROAD COMPANY.

1886, ch. 509

323. The county commissioners of each of the following coun-
ties, to wit: Dorchester, Wicomico, Talbot and Caroline are
authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to endorse the
bonds of the Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroad Company
to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars each; provided,
that no such endorsement shall be made until the question of such
endorsement shall have been submitted to the qualified voters of
their respective counties by the commissioners thereof, and a
majority of such qualified voters shall have determined in favor
of such endorsement; and provided also, that the bonds so en-
dorsed shall be secured by a mortgage on the property and fran-
chises of said Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroad, which said
mortgage shall be second to a mortgage of five hundred thousand
dollars to the city of Baltimore, but to no other.1

1 Adopted by the people of Dorchester, Wicomico and Talbot counties; re-
jected by the people of Caroline county.

ARTICLE XV.—KENT COUNTY.

At end of article, substitute for 221, the three following sec-
tions:

WITNESSES.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 14, sec. 218.

221. Each witness summoned to any court in said county
shall be entitled to receive for each day he shall attend, the sum
of seventy-five cents; and in addition thereto an allowance of six
and a quarter cents per mile for every mile his place of residence
shall be distant from the place of holding the court; such
mileage to be allowed for each day he shall attend.