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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the office of county commissioner for two years from the end

of his term of office.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all laws inconsistent with

Repeal.

or repugnant to the provisions of this act, be and the same

are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.

Approved March 22nd, 1892.

CHAPTER 158.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Hagerstown and

State Line Railroad Company.

SECTION, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Charter
amended.

Maryland, That the charter of the Hagerstown and State

Line Railroad Company, a body corporate under the Act

of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1876, chapter 242,

be and the same is hereby amended so as to permit the said

railroad company to construct its line from a point upon the

line of the Western Maryland Railroad at or near Hagers-

town in Washington County to any point upon the line be-

tween the States of Maryland and Pennsylvania not more

than eight miles from the city of Hagerstown in Washing-

ton County.

Effective

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 18th, 1892.

CHAPTER 159.

AN ACT to provide for the appointment of arbitrators to

ascertain and fix the true boundary between the State of

Maryland and West Virginia, and to authorize the

attorney-general to dismiss the suit now pending in the

Supreme Court of the United States, instituted by the

State of Maryland against the State of West Virginia

upon the acceptance by said State of the mode of set-

tlement of the dispute as to said boundary provided by

this act.

WHEREAS, there has existed for many years a dispute or

Preamble

controversy as to the true line of boundary between the ,

State of Maryland and West Virginia ; and,