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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 91.

AN ACT to protect the interest of the State of

Maryland in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Company, and for this purpose to authorize and

direct the Attorney-General of Maryland to take

such action on behalf of the said State as, in his

judgment, shall be proper, in any suit now pend-

ing, or which may hereafter be instituted, against

the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company ;

and also to institute such other legal proceedings

as, in his judgment, shall be proper, for the pro-

tection of the interest of the State of Maryland

in said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company,

and for the like purpose to authorize and direct

the Comptroller of the Treasury to provide or

execute, upon behalf of the State of Maryland,

such bonds or stipulations, in suits relating to said

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, as shall

be required by the said Attorney-General in the

premises.

WHEREAS a suit in equity has recently been in-

stituted in the Circuit Court of the United States

for the Maryland District by a certain Daniel K.

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Stewart against the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com-

pany and others, for the purpose of having the man-

agement of the said company placed in the hands

of a receiver ; and

WHEREAS the State of Maryland has large pe-

cuniary and other interest in the said company which

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will be injuriously affected by the granting of the re-
lief sought by the complainant in the said suit ; there-

fore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the Attorney-General of