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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ratification, and thereupon, there shall be the like proceedings as

are provided for by the Code of Public General Laws, article sixty-

six, title " Mortgages," and such court shall pass such orders or

decrees touching such sale and the distribution of the proceeds

thereof as may be right with the same right of appeal to all the

parties to said proceedings as is now allowed by law, and the faith

of the State is hereby pledged that the General Assembly shall

ratify and confirm any sale that may be made under this section

which shall be finally ratified and confirmed by the court.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the principal office of said

Office.

Washington and Cumberland railroad company shall be in the

city of Baltimore.

SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That the said Washington and

Cumberland railroad company shall not be permitted to connect

its tracks with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company's tracks

until the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company shall by such

B & O

action and in such form as may be determined by the attorney-

tracks.

general to be sufficient for the purpose, surrender all exemptions

from taxation granted to it by its charter, the act of the General

Assembly of Maryland of eighteen hundred and twenty-six,

chapter one hundred and twenty-three, or by any supplement

thereto.

Effective.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Approved February 28, 1890.

CHAPTER 67.

AN ACT to repeal and to re-enact Avith an amendment section

fifteen, of article forty-one, of the Code of Public General Laws,

title "Governor."

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

That section fifteen, of article forty-one, of the Code of Public

llepeal.

General Laws, title "Governor," be and the same is hereby re-

pealed and re-enacted with an amendment so as to read as follows :

15. The governor upon receiving the returns of election for

electors to choose a president and vice-president of the United

States and for members to represent this State in the congress of

Proclaim.

the United States, shall enumerate and ascertain the number of

votes given for each person voted for as an elector and member of

congress respectively, and shall thereupon declare by proclama-

tion signed by him, the name or names of the person or persons

duly elected, and shall cause such proclamation to be inserted in

such newspapers as he may direct.