WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 671

	CHAPTER 440.
	AN ACT to authorize the Treasurer of the State of
	Maryland to accept scrip of the Philadelphia and
	Beading Railroad Company in settlement of in-
	terest due to the first day of July, eighteen hun-
	dred and seventy-nine, upon the mortgages of the
	Susquehanna Canal Company and the Tide Water
	Canal Company to the State of Maryland, and
	also to receive the checks of the Treasurer of the
	said Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company
	for nine thousand dollars, in payment of the in-
	terest due on the said scrip up to the first day of
	July, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland, That the Treasurer of the State
	of Maryland be and he is hereby authorized to ac-
	cept the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dol-
	lars in the Philadelphia and Reading debenture
	guarantee scrip of the Philadelphia and Reading
	Railroad Company, each scrip being of the par value
	of one thousand dollars, payable on the first day of
	July, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, with inter-
	est coupons attached, the first payable the first day	Treasurer au-
	of January, eighteen hundred and eighty, in settle-	thorized to
	ment of interest due up to the first day of July,	accept.
	eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, upon the rnort-
	gages of the Susquehanna Canal Company and the
	Tide Water Canal Company to the State ; and the
	Treasurer of the State is also authorized to receive
	the checks of the Treasurer of the said Philadelphia
	and Reading Railroad Company for nine thousand
	dollars, in payment of the interest due on said scrip
	up to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and
	seventy-nine.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall	Effective.
	take effect from the day of its passage.
	Approved April 10, 1880.