160.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 157.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section five, of

article seventy-seven, of the Code of Public General Laws, title

"Public Education," sub-tile "Chapter Two, Formation of

Boards."

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

Repeal.

That section five, of article seventy-seven, of the Code of Public

General Laws, title "Public Education," sub-title "Chapter Two,

Formation of Boards," be and the same is hereby repealed and

re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows :

SEC. 5. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of

the Senate, shall appoint at every regular session of the General

Shall ap
point.

Assembly, four persons, (one of whom shall be' a resident of the

Eastern Shore,) who together with the governor and the principal

of the State normal school shall constitute the State board of

education.

Effective.

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

the date of its passage.

Approved March 27, 1890.

CHAPTER 158.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the county commissioners of

Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester and Wicomico counties to subscribe

to the capital stock of the Baltimore and Eastern Shore railroad

a company.

WHEREAS, by an act of the General Assembly of Maryland,

passed at its January session, in the year eighteen, hundred and

eighty-six, chapter five hundred and nine, the county commis-

sioners of Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester and Wicomico counties

were authorized in their discretion to endorse the bonds of the

Baltimore and Eastern Shore railroad company to an amount not

Preamble,

exceeding fifty thousand dollars each, when a majority of the

qualified voters of said counties respectively should determine in

favor of such endorsement, and that the bonds so endorsed to be

secured by a mortgage on the property and franchises of said

Baltimore and Eastern Shore railroad company and which was to

be second to a mortgage to Baltimore city to the amount of five

hundred thousand dollars; and,

WHEREAS, Talbot, Dorchester and Wicomico counties, at an

election held on the eighth day of November, in the year eighteen

hundred and eighty-seven, determined by a majority of the quali-