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608 CALVERT COUNTY. [ART. 5,
county shall be actually made either in land or money, the
treasurer of this State is authorized and required, in the name
and on behalf of the State, upon the recommendation of the
county commissioners of said county making such application, to
subscribe for so many shares of the capital stock of the company
as shall amount to the sum which is hereby distributed and
applied to the said county; and the said treasurer shall, out of
any unappropriated money in the treasury, pay the instalments
on each share of the capital stock of said companies for which he
shall subscribe as aforesaid on the warrant of the comptroller^
which the latter officer is hereby directed to issue as the said
instalments may be called for by the county commissioners of
said county, and agreeably to the provisions of the act incorporat-
ing said companies; provided, that the treasurer shall not at any
time pay upon the State subscription to the capital stock of any
of the said companies a greater amount than shall have actually
been subscribed and paid as hereby required by other subscribers,
to the capital stock of the said companies; and provided further,
that the said treasurer shall not pay more than one-fourth of the
whole amount hereby appropriated, in any one year. The said
appropriation of $152,000 made by the State to Calvert county,
and the subscription of said county of $100,000 to the capital
stock of the Baltimore and Drum Point railroad company, author-
ized by sections 22-31 of this article, and ratified by the act of
1874, chapter 159, shall be expended within the limits of said
county in the construction of the railroad of said company, and
for no other purpose.
1868, ch. 454.
85. If the whole or any portion of the fund hereby appropri-
ated shall not be demanded according to the provisions hereof, by
any of the counties referred to, then and in that case the afore-
said $500,000 set apart for and intended to be applied to works
of internal improvements in said counties shall be held sacred,
and the faith of the State is pledged that the said amount shall be
exclusively devoted to works of internal improvements in said
counties, and subject to the disposition of any future legislation
of this State.
Ibid.
86. When a demand shall be made for any portion of the
aforesaid sum of $500,000, and in the judgment of the treasurer
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