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	hereby authorized to lease or purchase, or form a	May consoli-
	union and consolidation with the Elkton and Mid-	date
	dletown Rail Road, contemplated to be built by
	authority of an act of incorporation passed by the
	Legislature of the State of Delaware, at the session
	of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, chapter one
	hundred and seventeen, at the State line dividing
	the States of Maryland and Delaware, and to con-
	nect the tracks of its railroad with the tracks of the	Connect
	Elkton and Middletown Rail Road Company, incor-	trucks.
	porated by the Legislature of the State of Delaware
	as aforesaid, when the directors of the Elkton and
	Middletown Rail Road Company of Cecil county
	may deem it expedient and proper.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Elkton and
	Middletown Rail Road Company of Cecil county be
	and are hereby authorized to connect the tracks of	Counect
	its railroad with the tracks of the Philadelphia,	tracks.
	Wilmington and Baltimore Rail Road Company, at
	or near the town of Elkton, in Cecil county, in the
	State of Maryland.
	Approved April 10, 1880.

	CHAPTER 277.
	AN ACT to amend an act of the General Assembly
	of Maryland, passed at the January session, eigh-
	teen hundred and sixty-five, chapter eighty-two,
	entitled "An act to incorporate the Washington
	Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore," and to
	enlarge the powers of the said company.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland, That the Washington Fire In-
	surance Company of Baltimore, in the manner heje- inafter provided, shall have power to invest the pro- ceeds of its capital, or the surplus funds belonging	Invest in bonds, &c
	to the company, in any bonds or loans of the United