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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

That article twenty-three, of the Code of Public General Laws

of this State, title "Corporations," as the same was adopted by

the act of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, chapter seventy-

Amend.

four, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the

following additional section to follow section nineteen, class six

of said article twenty-three, and to be designated as "Section nine-
teen A, class six A," of said article.

SEC. 19 A, class six A. For the purpose of carrying on the

Purpose.

business of printing, publishing or selling books, pamphlets or
newspapers, or of carrying on the general business of a job print-

ing office.

Effective.

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

the date of its passage.

Approved March 19, 1890.

CHAPTER 135.

AN ACT to repeal sections two hundred and forty three, two

hundred and forty-eight and two hundred and forty-nine, of

article one, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title " Allegany

county," sub-title " Westernport " and to re-enact the same with

amendments, so as to read as follows :

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

Repeal.

That sections two hundred and forty-three, two hundred and forty-

eight and two hundred and forty-nine, of article one, of the Code

of Public Local Laws, title "Allegany county," sub-title "West-

ernport," be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as

to read as follows :

243. The male citizens of Westernport aforesaid, of the age of

twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens of the United States,

who have resided in said town for and during the space of six

months next preceding the second Monday in January in each and

every year, at the usual place of holding elections in said town or

To elect.

at such place as shall be designated by the commissioners of West-

ernport, are authorized to elect five commissioners for said town

who shall have resided within the limits thereof at least two years

next preceding said election, also a clerk and bailiff, each of whom

shall have resided in the town two years next preceding the elec-

tion, the commissioners now in office shall continue in office until

their successors are elected and qualified, and the commissioners

to be elected-under the provisions of this act shall, after they have

qualified, hold their several offices until their successors are elected

and qualified.

248. The commissioners shall have power to pass all ordinances