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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 395.

AN ACT to encourage manufactures in the city

of Cumberland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of
Cumberland be and they are hereby empowered to

levy, for the years eighteen hundred and eighty and

eighteen hundred and eighty-one, at the time of

making the annual levy for general purposes in said

Levy for
manufactur-

city, upon all the taxable property therein, a sum not
to exceed fifteen hundred dollars in each of said

ing enter pri

years, for the purpose of securing the introduction

ses.

and establishment of manufacturing enterprises in

said city ; said sum or sums, or so much thereof as

may be found necessary, to be levied to and expend-

ed by and under the direction of the committee on

manufactures, now existing under and by virtue of

the appointment of the mayor of said city, to wit :

Richard D. Johnson, Henry W. Hoffman, Frederick

Mertens, Samuel Sonnerborn and Theodore Luman.

Effective.

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

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 14, 1880.

CHAPTER 396.

AN ACT to change the name of " Beantown Sta.

tion," in Charles county, to " Waldorf."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the name of the village now

Change of

known as " Beantown Station," situated in election

name.

district number six, Charles county, on the Balti-

more and Potomac Railroad, be and is hereby

changed to " Waldorf."