WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 661

	SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and
	City Council of the city of Baltimore be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to subscribe to the
	capital stock of the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac	Authorized
	River Tide-Water Company, or to endorse the first	to subscribe.
	mortgage bonds of said company to an amount not
	exceeding one million and five hundred thousand dol-
	lars, upon such terms and conditions as the said
	Mayor and City Council may order and prescribe.
	SEC. 8. And be it enacted That this act shall	Effective.
	take effect from and after the date of its passage.
	Approved April 14, 1880.

CHAPTER 437.

AN ACT to enable the Baltimore, Cincinnati and
Western Railway Company, a corporation under
the provisions of chapter two hundred and forty-
two of the acts of the Legislature of Maryland,
passed at January session, eighteen hundred and
seventy-six, and entitled "An act to repeal chapter
four hundred and seventy-six of the acts of eigh-
teen hundred and seventy, entitled 'An act to
provide for the creation and regulation of incor-
porated companies in the State of Maryland,'"
and enact a substitute therefor; to merge and
consolidate with other connecting railroads, and
to lease or be leased by the same; to cross other
railroads; to borrow money, and to issue capital
stock in shares of fifty dollars each, or in shares of
one hundred dollars each.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the Baltimore, Cincinnati
and Western Railway Company be and the same is