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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Company continues to be the owner of the stock of

said railroad company; provided said railroad com-

pany continues to pay the State tax upon its gross

receipts as required by the laws of this State.

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 343.

AN ACT to repeal section one of an act passed at

the January session of eighteen hundred and fifty

three of the General Assembly of Maryland, en-

titled " An act to amend an act entitled an act

to establish a House of Refuge for Juvenile De-

linquents and supplements thereto," so as to re-

duce the number of managers thereof, and to re-

enact the same with amendments, so as to read as

follows :

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That section one of the act passed at

the January session of eighteen hundred and fifty-

Re- enacted
with amend-

three of the General Assembly of Maryland, en-
titled " An act to amend an act entitled an act to

ments.

establish a House of Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents

and supplements thereto, so as to reduce the num-

ber of managers thereof, be and is hereby repealed

and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as

follows :

SEC. 1. And be it enacted, That the number of

managers of the House of Refuge shall be fifteen

Reduction of
managers.

instead of twenty-four, as now prescribed by law,
and of whom five shall be appointed by the Gov-

ernor, by and with the consent of the Senate ; five