JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 35T

CHAPTER 220.
AN ACT changing the place of voting in the third
election district of Kent county, Maryland, from
"Worten Heights," or " Hanesville," to Smith-
ville, in said election district.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the place of voting in the third election district of Kent county, Maryland, be and is hereby changed from "Worten Heights," or	Election dis- trict changed
" Hanesville," to Smithville in said election district.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act	In force.
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 222.
AN ACT to amend the charter and enlarge the
powers of the " American Coal Company of Alle-
gany county."
SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the " American Coal Com-
pany of Allegany County," organized under an act
to authorize the formation of corporations for mining
purposes, passed at January session, eighteen hun-
red and fifty-two, chapter three hundred and
twenty-two, be and it is hereby authorized and
empowered to purchase and hold such amount of the capital stock and first mortgage bonds of any rail- road corporation which now owns or may hereafter	Empowered to purchase and hold capi- tal stock.
acquire, or construct a railroad leading from any
convenient point at or near its mines in Allegany
county to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, or to the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, or to both of said
works, or to any point in Allegany county, as the president and directors of said corporation, or a