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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said County

Commissioners shall have power to levy upon the

Power to levy

assessable property of said county a sum of money
not exceeding one thousand dollars, for building the

said bridge.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall

In force.

take eifect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 421.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Washington

City and Point Lookout Railroad Company, and

to enlarge the powers thereof, so as to enable said

company to purchase the rights and property, real

and personal, of the Southern Maryland Railroad

Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the Washington City and Point

Lookout Railroad Company, a corporation duly or-

ganized on the twenty-fourth day of February, eigh-

teen hundred and seventy-two, under the provisions

of an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland,

entitled "An act to provide for the creation and

regulation of incorporated companies in the State of

Authority

Maryland," approved April the fourth, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy, is hereby authorized and empowered

and power
given to pur-
chase.

to purchase the rights and property, real or personal,
or the railroad, or any part of the railroad, of the

Southern Maryland Railroad Company, a corporation
created under the provisions of the Act of the General

Assembly, passed at the January session, eighteen

hundred and sixty-eight, chapter one hundred and

fifty, at any sale thereof which may hereafter be

made under the decree or order of any court of com-

petent jurisdiction, or under the provisions of any

mortgage or deed of trust duly executed.

In force

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

effect from and after the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1878.