2198 APPENDIX—TALBOT.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 14, sec. 219.

222. The clerk of the circuit court for said county shall report
to the county commissioners a list of all such witnesses summoned
to attend said court, with the number of days they attended, with
the distance each witness, to the best of his judgment, resides
from the place of holding said court.

Ibid, sec 220.

223. The provisions of the two preceding sections shall apply
only to witnesses residing within the limits of said county.

ARTICLE XXI.—TALBOT COUNTY.
At end of article, add as follows:

WORKS OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.

BALTIMORE AND EASTERN SHORE RAILROAD COMPANY.

1886, ch. 509.

237. The county commissioners of each of the following coun-
ties, to wit: Talbot, Wicomico, Caroline and Dorchester 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 Talbot, Wicomico and Dorchester counties , re-
jected by the people of Caroline county.