WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 156.

AN ACT to repeal section three of chapter two

hundred and thirty-two of the acts of the General

Assembly, passed at the January session, eighteen

hundred and seventy-eight, entitled " An Act to

authorize the construction and maintenance of a

line of telegraph from the House of Correction

at Jessup's Station, in Anne Arundel county, to

the Police Headquarters in Baltimore city, and

from the State Penitentiary to the Police Head-

quarters in Baltimore city, and to abolish the

office of Superintendent of the Telegraph Line

therein created."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That section three of chapter

two hundred and thirty-two of the acts of the Gen-

eral Assembly, passed at the January session, eigh-

teen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled " An Act to

authorize the construction and maintenance of a

line of telegraph from the House of Correction at

Repealed and
office abolished

Jessup's Station, in Anne Arundel county, to the

Police Headquarters in Baltimore city, and from

the State Penitentiary to the Police Headquarters

in Baltimore city," be and the same is hereby re-

pealed, and the office of Superintendent of the

Telegraph Lines authorized by said act be and the

same is hereby abolished.

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

of telegraph shall be transferred by the Board of

Public Works to the Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore, who shall keep and maintain the same

Telegraph line

at their own proper cost and expense, and arc hereby

transferred.

invested with all the rights and privileges granted

to telegraph companies under the general incorpora-

tion laws of the State in the working and mainte-

nance of this line.

Approved March 30, 1882.