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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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debt contracted for the purpose aforesaid or any bonds issued
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by such corporation ; provided, however, that upon making
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any such consolidation any stockholder of any company
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consolidating with the Union Passenger Railway Company,
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as aforesaid voting against said consolidation or declining
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to assent to the same, shall be paid by the consolidated
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company the actual market value of the stock held by him
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in the company so consolidating under the provisions afore-
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said, and if the parties can not agree upon the value of the
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said stock, the same shall be submitted to arbitration, one
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arbiter to be appointed by each of the parties, and the two
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so appointed to choose a third, and if they fail to agree
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upon the third arbitrator the Circuit Court of Baltimore
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City shall upon application of either party, appoint such
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third arbitrator, and the decision of the majority of the
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arbitrators so chosen shall be final and conclusive on both
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parties.
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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Baltimore
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Endorse
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Union Passenger Railway Company, its successors or assigns,
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bonds
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are hereby empowered to endorse or guarantee the bonds or
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other evidences of indebtedness of other passenger railway
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companies, and to purchase such other railways, or to sub-
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scribe or purchase the stock, bonds or other evidences of
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debt of any company which may own or operate a passenger
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railroad.
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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall
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Effective.
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take effect from the date of its passage.
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Approved March 31st, 1892.
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CHAPTER 267.
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AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, section
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one, of article forty-five of the Code of Public General
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Laws, title "Husband and Wife."
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Maryland, That section one of article forty-five of the Code
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Repealed
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of Public General Laws, title "Husband and Wife," be and
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re-enacted
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the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as
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follows :
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1. The property real and personal belonging to a woman
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Property of
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at the time of her marriage, and all property which she may
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married
woman.
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acquire or receive after her marriage, by purchase, gift,
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grant, devise, bequest, descent, in a course of distribution
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or in any other manner, shall be protected from the debts of
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