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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Court of

Common Pleas, and who shall be removed in the dis-

cretion of the said clerk for neglect or carelessness

in the discharge of his duties or for other good and

sufficient cause.

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

city of Baltimore shall pay to the said watchman

Salary.

the sum of eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents
per month as and for his salary in the same manner

as is now by law provided for the payment of the

salaries of the bailiffs of the courts.

In force.

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

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1878.

CHAPTER 480.

AN ACT to organize the Maryland and Delaware

Railroad, after sales under decrees for foreclosure,

by that or some other name that may hereafter

be adopted, and to incorporate the same into a

body politic.

Whereas that part of the Maryland and Delaware

Railroad in Maryland has been sold under a decree

for foreclosure and sale, passed by the Circuit Court

for Talbot county, Maryland, in equity, and that

part of said railroad in Delaware has been sold un-

Preamble.

der a like decree, passed by the Circuit Court of the

United States for the district of Delaware, and the

same persons have become purchasers of both parts

of the said railroad, and the said sales have not yet

been ratified and confirmed by the said courts, under

whose authority they were respectively made ;

Preamble.

And whereas no general law exists in this State

providing for the creation of corporations for the