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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

which shall be in his office unfinished by his pre-

decessor, within the six months given in the pre-

ceding section ; and such clerk or register shall be

allowed the usual fees for so doing, the same to be

paid by said predecessor, and the last official bond

Shall be re-

of said predecessor shall be responsible for same

sponsible.

in cases where said predecessor has received the fees

therefor; and in cases where the fees have not been

received by his said predecessor, such clerk or regis-

Entitled to

ter completing said business shall be entitled to said

fees.

fees therefor, and shall collect the same from the

parties owing the same in the like manner that he

collects other fees for similar services.

In force.

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

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 230.

AN ACT to empower the People's Passenger Rail-

way Company, of Baltimore city, to accept sub-

scriptions to its capital stock in personal property

or real estate, or in both personal property and

real estate.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the People's Passenger Railway

Company, of Baltimore city, incorporated under the
act of the General Assembly of Maryland of eighteen
hundred and seventy-six, chapter two hundred and

Empowered

forty-two, and approved April seventh, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-six, be empowered to accept sub-

to accept.

scriptions to its capital stock in personal property or

real estate, or in both personal property and real es-

tate, at such valuation as may be agreed upon be-

tween the incorporation in said company and those

subscribing at the time of said subscription, instead

of pursuing the provisions of the seventh section of

said act.