FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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highest price or prices shall in their judgment be insufficient

they shall have power and it shall be their duty to reject

said bid or bids.

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

not apply to the stocks of the Washington Branch of the

What not
to apply to.

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company now held by the

State of Maryland and amounting to the sum of five hun-

dred and fifty thousand dollars.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if after adver-

tising as provided in the preceding section for sealed pro-

Private

posals, no such sealed proposals shall be submitted, or if as

sale— when
allowed.

authorized in said section, they, shall reject all of said pro-

posals, they shall be authorized to sell and transfer the

State's interest in any or all works of internal improvement

and any or all banking corporations at private sale upon

the best terms and highest prices which they can obtain

therefor. And in making said public or private sale or

sales, they shall be authorized to employ such agents to

assist them in making said sales to the best advantage as

they shall deem necessary to secure the most advantageous

sale or sales of the State's said interest, and to pay said

agent or agents so employed such compensation for their

services as shall be mutually agreed on, such compensation

to be paid only out of the proceeds of sales and not otherwise.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five

hundred dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out

Appropria
tion.

of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for

the purpose of defraying the costs and expenses which shall

be incurred by the Board of Public Works in carrying this

act into effect.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4th, 1892.

CHAPTER 311.

AN ACT in relation to the sentences of convict minors.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That minors under the age of sixteen years upon

Sentence

conviction of any offense punishable by imprisonment may

ot convict

in the discretion of the court or justice of the peace, instead

minors

of imprisonment in the place provided for in case of offenders

generally, be sentenced to imprisonment in any house of