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	"Declaratory Decrees," be and the same is hereby repealed and	Repeal.
	re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows, viz :
	30. No declaratory suit can be brought, nor decree passed to
	establish a fact or facts that are without legal consequences, and
	wherever the court shall be of opinion that there is a question or
	questions involved in such suit, which a party or parties may be entitled under the constitution, to have submitted to a jury, the
	court shall, if such party or parties require it, direct an issue or
	issues to be made up and sent to any court of law convenient for
	trying the same, and the issues shall be tried in the said court of
	law as soon as convenient without any continuance longer than	issues.
	may be necessary to procure the attendance of witnesses, and the
	power of the court of laws and the proceedings thereto relative,
	shall be as directed by law respecting the trial of issues from
	chancery, or the orphans' court as to proceedings therein, thereon
	and thereafter, but nothing herein contained shall be so construed
	as to prevent the equity courts of Baltimore city from, summon-
	ing a jury to try such issue or issues pursuant to the provisions
	of section one hundred and seventy-four (174,) of article f our (4,)
	of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Baltimore city," sub-title
	"Courts;" the order granting or denying such issues shall be sub-
	ject to appeal.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from	Effective.
	the date of its passage.
	Approved February 28, 1890.

	CHAPTER 66.
	AN ACT to amend the charter of the Washington and Cumber-
	land railroad company, a corporation formed under article
	twenty-three of the Public General Laws of the State, title
	"Corporations."
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
	That the Washington and Cumberland railroad company, a cor-
	poration formed under the provisions of article twenty-three of
	the Code of Public General Laws of this State, title "Corpora-
	tions," in addition to the powers possessed by it under its certi-
	ficate of corporation as prescribed by said article of the Code of	Railroad.
	Public General Laws, shall have full power and authority to con-
	struct, complete, maintain, equip and operate by steam or any
	other power, a railroad with one or more tracks upon and along
	the tow-path or bed of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, or both,
	in its discretion, or upon land of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal
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