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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 87.

AN ACT to authorize the Eastern Shore Railroad

Company, as reorganized, to acquire by purchase

the Eastern Shore Railroad, and all the rolling

stock, property, furniture, effects, franchises and cor-

porate rights of the Eastern Shore Railroad Com-

pany, and to extend to the said Eastern Shore Eail-

road Company, as reorganized after such purchase,

all the rights, privileges and franchises contained

in the charter of the Eastern Shore Railroad Com-

pany, and to amend the charter of the Eastern

Shore Railroad Company, as reorganized, and to

repeal all Acts of Assembly inconsistent with the

provisions of this act.

WHEREAS by a decree of the Circuit Court of the

United States for the district of Maryland, sitting

in equity, and passed in a cause in the said court

wherein the Harlan and Hollingsworth Company

and others are complainants, and the Eastern Shore

Railroad Company and others are defendants, bear-

ing date the tenth day of December, eighteen hun-

dred and seventy-eight, a certain Samuel M. Felton,

Preamble.

of the State of Pennsylvania, was appointed a trus-

tee and authorized and empowered to sell the prem-

ises mortgaged by the said Eastern Shore Railroad

Company, to with the Eastern Shore Railroad and

all the rolling stock, property, furniture, effects and

franchises of the said Eastern Shore Railroad Com-

pany, for the payment of the second mortgage bonds

of the said Eastern Shore Railroad Company, men-

tioned in the said decree, and the interest thereon

which had accrued and might accrue thereon until

the day of sale ; and

WHEREAS, in pursuance of the said decree, the said

Preamble.

Samuel M. Felton, trustee, after complying with all
the requirements of the said decree, and after giving

the notice therein required of time, place, manner

and terms of sale, did, on the nineteenth day of Feb-