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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 246.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Governor

of the State of Maryland to appoint an additional

justice of the peace in election district number

four of Talbot county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

Governor tc
appoint addi-
tional justice
of the peace

of Maryland, That the Governor be and he is hereby
authorized and empowered to appoint an additional
justice of the peace in and for election district num-
ber four of Talbot county, in addition to those now

required to be appointed by existing laws.

Approved April 5, 1878.

CHAPTER 247.

AN ACT to amend an act to incorporate the presi-

dent and directors of the American Fire Insurance

Company of Baltimore, (passed February twenty-

third, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.)

SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That on and after the passage of

Lawful to

this act it shall be lawful for the president and di-

make perpet-

rectors of the American Fire Insurance Company of

ual insurance

Baltimore to make perpetual insurance, or insurance

for any shorter term, against loss or damage by fire

in the State of Maryland and elsewhere.

Charter per-

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the charter of the

petual.
Right re-

company be and the same is hereby made perpetual,
the Legislature reserving to itself the right at any

served.

time to amend the same.

Act repealed

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any act conflict-
ing with this act be and the same is hereby repealed.

Approved April 5, 1878.