ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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fied voters of said last mentioned counties respectively to endorse the
bonds of said railroad as follows, viz : Talbot county to the amount

of fifty thousand dollars, Dorchester county to the amount of

thirty thousand dollars, and Wicomico county to the amount of

twenty-five thousand dollars; and,

WHEREAS, said act of Assembly of eighteen hundred and eighty-
six, chapter five hundred and nine, was by joint resolution num-

ber eleven, duly approved by the General Assembly of eighteen

hundred and eighty-eight, as the constitution of this State directs,

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but owing to the failure of Baltimore city to endorse said bonds

the county commissioners of said counties of Talbot, Dorchester

and Wicomico are unable to exercise the discretion reposed in

them by the acts of Assembly and resolution number eleven afore-

said; and,

WHEREAS, the said Baltimore and Eastern Shore railroad com-

pany relying upon the endorsements authorized by the acts of As-

sembly and resolution aforesaid, and the votes of the majority of

the qualified voters of Talbot, Dorchester and Wicomico counties

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respectively, has contracted for the building of said railroad from

Salisbury, in Wicomico county, to Broad cove in Talbot county,

and has in good faith nearly completed said road in Talbot county ;

and,

WHEREAS, the said Baltimore and Eastern Shore railroad com-

pany has agreed to accept from said counties of Talbot, Dor-

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chester and Wicomico a subscription to the capital stock of said

company in lieu of the endorsement of its second mortgage bonds

in the manner above recited; and,

WHEREAS, at the election held on the eighth day of November,

in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the question of

endorsement of said bonds of said railroad company to the amount

of sixteen thousand dollars was submitted to the qualified voters

of Caroline county, and a majority of said voters determined

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against said endorsement, but said county is willing to submit

with the other counties of the Eastern Shore through which said

road passes the question of subscription to the capital stock of

said railroad company to the qualified voters of said county; there-

fore,

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

That the county commissioners of Talbot, Dorchester, Wicomico

and Caroline counties, be and they are hereby authorized and

empowered to subscribe to the capital stock of said Baltimore and

Eastern Shore railroad company in the following manner, to wit :

May sub-

the commissioners of Talbot county to the sum of twenty-five

scribe.

thousand dollars; the commissioners of Dorchester county to the

sum of twenty thousand dollars; the commissioners of Wicomico

county to the sum of twenty thousand dollars, and the commis-

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