ELIHU B. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 59. Any person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who

shall be convicted of the crime of breaking into, or entering by

force or otherwise, any railroad car then being in the possession

Breaking

or use of any railroad company in this State, or then being upon

R. R. Cars

the track of any railroad company in this State, shall, in the dis-

cretion of the court, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less

than two, nor more than ten years, or in the house of correction,

not exceeding three years, or in jail, not exceeding one year.

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

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 499.

AN ACT to declare the charter of the Maryland and Virginia

bridge company as granted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land by an act passed on the second day of March, A. D.

eighteen hundred and forty-eight, chapter two hundred and

eighty-seven, of the acts of eighteen hundred and forty-seven,

forfeited unless said bridge shall be repaired before the first

day of November, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety.

WHEREAS, The bridge belonging to the Maryland and Vir-

ginia bridge company across the Potomac river at Shepherdtown,

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West Virginia, was destroyed by the flood in May, A. D. eighteen

hundred and eighty-nine ;

.

WHEREAS, said bridge was for many years a thoroughfare be-

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tween the States of Maryland and West Virginia ;

WHEREAS, the majority of the stock of said bridge company is

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owned by citizens of West Virginia, all the directors of said

bridge company except one being citizens of West Virginia;

WHEREAS, said bridge company is well able to repair said bridge
but refuses so to do, whereby the persons crossing the river at this

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point are compelled to use the ferry which is also the property of

the said bridge company; and,

WHEREAS, it would be to the interest of the citizens of Mary-

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land to have said bridge repaired.

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

That the charter of the Maryland and Virginia bridge company,

as granted by the General Assembly of Maryland by an act passed

To forfeit.

on the second day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty-

eight, chapter two hundred and eighty-seven, of the acts of

eighteen hundred and forty-seven, be and the same is hereby de-

clared to be forfeited, and said act passed on the second clay of