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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred

dollars, with costs, or imprisoned not less than one

month nor more than six months in the county jail,

or both, at the discretion of the court, for each offence ;

and in any prosecution for violating any of the pro-

visions of this section it shall not be necessary in

order to convict, to prove that the .offender was actu-

ally taking up oysters, but only that he was at work

in the waters so staked off by bushes, stakes or buoys

as aforesaid.

Effective

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1880.

CHAPTER 215.

AN ACT to enable the Consumers Mutual Gas

Light Company of Baltimore city to hold and dis-

pose of certain shares of the capital stock of said

company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

Make certifi-

bly of Maryland, That when two million five hun-

cate.

dred thousand dollars of the capital stock of the

Consumers Mutual Gas Light Company of Baltimore

city shall have been paid in, it shall be lawful for

the president and a majority of the directors of said

corporation to make a certificate, stating the amount

of the capital stock so paid in, and of all property

received in payment for any of said stock, and the

extent to which said payments have been so made

Shall be

in property, which certificate shall be sworn to by

sworn to.

the president, and he shall, within thirty days there-

after, file the same with the clerk of the Superior

Court, to be by said clerk recorded.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the making and

Deemed a

filing of the said certificate shall be taken as and

compliance.

shall stand in the stead of a compliance by said cor-

poration with the provisions of sections fifty-nine