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	and shall be paid in the same manner and at the same rate, and
	shall be governed in the same way as other captains forming a
	part of the said permanent police force of the said city are paid
	and governed.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from	Effective.
	the date of its passage.
	Approved March 27, 1890.

	CHAPTER 125.
	AN ACT to provide for additional justices of the peace for Bal-
	timore city.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
	That the governor shall be and he is hereby empowered to ap-
	point three justices of the peace at large for the city of Baltimore in addition to those provided for by law; provided, he shall in his	Justices.
	discretion decide the same to be necessary.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from	Effective.
	the date of its passage.
	Approved March 27, 1890.

	CHAPTER 126.
	AN ACT to authorize certain railroad companies incorporated
	under the laws of this State to sell or lease their property and
	franchises to the Western Maryland railroad company or to the
	Western Maryland tidewater railroad company.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
	That any railroad company now or hereafter to be incorporated
	under the laws of this State, which shall connect with the West-
	ern Maryland railroad company or with any railroad owned or
	operated by said company under any lease or contract, may lease or sell its property of all kinds and franchises to the Western	May sell.
	Maryland railroad company or to the Western Maryland tidewater
	railroad company upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the parties; provided, however, that no such sale or lease shall be
	made unless the same shall have been assented to by a majority
	of all the stockholders, in person or by prosy, of the company
	whose road it is proposed to sell or lease, at a meeting to be held
	for the purpose, upon such notice as is required by the charter
	and by-laws of said company.