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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Shore Railroad Company and which was to be second to a

mortgage to Baltimore City to the amount of five hundred

thousand dollars and,

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WHEREAS, said Talbot County at an election held on the
eight day of November in the year eighteen hundred and

eighty-seven determined by a majority of its qualified voters

to endorse the bonds of said railroad company to the

amount of fifty thousand dollars and,

WHEREAS, the said Act of Assembly of eighteen hundred

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and eighty-six, chapter five hundred and nine was by joint

resolution number eleven duly approved by the General

Assembly of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight as the

constitution of this State directs ; and,

WHEREAS, by an Act of the General Assembly of Mary-

Preamble

land passed at its January session in the year eighteen

hundred and ninety chapter one hundred and fifty-eight

the Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroad Company agree

to except from Talbot County a subscription of twenty-five

thousand dollars to the capital stock of said company in

lieu of the endorsement of its second mortgage bonds to the

amount of fifty thousand dollars as hereinbefore recited and

the County Commissioners of Talbot County were authorized

and empowered to subscribe to the capital stock of said rail

road company to the amount of said sum of twenty-five

thousand dollars, provided, the question of such supscrip

tion should be first submitted to the qualified voters of said

county at an election then to be held on the fourth day of

November, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety, and a

majority of said qualified voters voting at said election

should determine in favor of such subscription and,

WHEREAS, at said election held on the fourth day of

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November, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety the

question of subscription of twenty -five thousand dollars by

Talbot County to the capital stock of said railroad company

was submitted to the qualified voters of said county and a

majority of the voters voting at said election did determine

in its favor and it now becomes necessary for the County

Commissioners of Talbot County to carry out in good faith

the agreement made by them with said railroad company

and ratified by a majority of the voters of said county in

the manner hereinbefore recited therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

To issue

Maryland. That the County Commissioners of Talbot

bonds.

County be and they are hereby authorized and empowered

to issue coupon bonds of said Talbot County to be signed

by the president of the board of commissioners of said county