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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 123.

AN ACT to amend the act amending the charter

of the Maryland Central Railroad Company, passed

January session, eighteen hundred and seventy,

chapter one hundred and twenty-eight, so as to

extend the time for the commencement and com-

pletion of the same.

SECTION 17. Be it enacted ly the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That section seventeen of the act

entitled an act to amend the charter of the Mary-

land Central Railroad Company, passed January

session, eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter one

Repealed and

hundred and twenty-eight, so as to extend the time

re-enacted.

for the commencement and completion of the eame,

and to appoint corporators in the place of those who
have died, resigned, or refused to act, be and it is
hereby repealed, amended and re-enacted so as to

read as follows:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, That if the said rail-

road shall not be commenced within five years from

When null

the passage of this act, and shall not be completed

and void.

within eight years from the time of the commence-

ment, then this act shall be null and void.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 30, 1880.