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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ford County Agricultural Society, and a like sum to

the Kent County Agricultural Society Number One,
and a like sum to the Howard County Agricultural
Society, and a like sum to the Queen Anne's Agricul-

tural Society ; provided the members of said societies
shall pay an equal amount into their treasuries before
the appropriation herein made shall be paid, which
fact shall be attested by the affidavit of the president

and treasurer of said societies, filed in the office of

the Comptroller of the State.

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 362.

AN ACT to amend the act of eighteen hundred and

seventy-four, chapter three hundred and sixty-five,

entitled "An act to incorporate the Maryland

Canal Company," by repealing sections two and

three of said act, and by re-enacting said sections

in new and amended forms.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That sections two and three of the

Repealed and
re-enacted.

act of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter
three hundred and sixty-five, entitled " An act to in-

corporate the Maryland Canal Company," be and

the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted in a

new and amended form, so as to read as follows :

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock

Capital stock.

of the said Maryland Canal Company shall consist

of four millions of dollars, divided into forty thou-

sand shares of the par value of one hundred dollars

each, which shall be considered as personal property,

Each share

and shall be transferable in such manner as may be

entitled to

provided by the by-laws of said company ; and each

one vote.

share thereof shall entitle the holder thereof to one