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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

approval of the Governor and Comptroller, and to

the best advantage, from time to time, as the neces-

sity of the treasury may require, any or all of the

bonds which are to be issued to the State of Mary-

land by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,

in accordance with chapter —— of the acts of the

Apply the
proceeds.

present General Assembly, and to apply the proceeds
of the sale or sales thereof to the support of the

government of the State ; provided that said bonds

shall not be sold for less than their par value.

In force.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from and after the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 239.

AN ACT for the relief of Western Maryland College.

Whereas Western Maryland College, incorporated

in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and

located at Westminster, Carroll county, Maryland,

and from its location representing a larger popula-

tion than any similar institution in. the State, thor-

oughly organized and prepared to furnish a complete
collegiate education to its students, and whereas the

said Western Maryland College, having never re-

ceived from the State any assistance or appropria-

Preamble

tion, now proposes to educate one student from each

Senatorial District in the State free of charge for

tuition, boarding, washing, fuel and lights, and also

to furnish to the citizens of one of the largest tax-

paying and most populous portions of the State ed-

ucational facilities which they do not now possess,

but which are enjoyed by other parts of the State

through institutions aided by State appropriations ;

now, therefore, in consideration of the matter here-

inbefore recited :

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

Treasurer di-

of Maryland, That the Treasurer, on the warrant

lected to pay.

of the Comptroller, be and is hereby authorized and