ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 553.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of public works to

build and equip a suitable sailing vessel to take the place of

the sloop Carrie Franklin, to guard the waters of the fourth

oyster district, being the waters of Wicomico county, of the

State of Maryland.

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

That the board of public works be and the same are hereby

To build.

authorized and empowered to have built and equipped a suitable

sailing vessel to take the place of the sloop Carrie Franklin, and

assign the same to guard the waters of the fourth oyster district

of the State of Maryland, being the waters of Wicomico county,

and to name the same.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the board of public works be

and hereby authorized to sell the sloop Carrie Franklin at public

To sell.

or private sale and the funds arising from said sale turn over to

the comptroller, to be placed to the credit of the oyster fund.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the sum of five thousand dol-

lars is hereby appropriated out of the funds standing to the credit

Appro-
priation.

of the oyster fund, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for

the purpose of building and equipping said sailing vessel, and

the comptroller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the

treasurer for the same.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 553.

AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and seventy-eight, of

article twenty-three, of the Code of Public General Laws of

Maryland, title "Corporations," sub-title "Railroads," and re-

enact the same with an amendment.

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

That section one hundred and seventy-eight, of article twenty-

three, of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title

Repeal.

"Corporations," sub-title "Railroads," be and the same is hereby

repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

178. It shall be lawful for any railroad company heretofore or

hereafter incorporated under the laws of this State to consolidate

with any other railroad company incorporated under the laws of

this or any other State, or of the United States, whose railroad