WM. T HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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of such crossing or crossings in the manner and

with the powers for the condemnation of property

prescribed and granted by the act of the General

Assembly of Maryland passed at January session,

eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and entitled

" An Act to amend the Act incorporating the West-

ern Maryland Railroad Company and to give addi-

tional powers to said company."

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall

Effective,

take effect from its passage.

Approved March 30, 1882.

Chapter 177.

AN ACT supplementary to chapter thirty-four of

the acts of the January session of the General

Assembly of eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and

to confirm an ordinance of the Mayor and City

Council of Baltimore, entitled "An ordinance

supplementary to an ordinance passed December

the twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-

three,' entitled 'An ordinance to aid the Balti-

more and Ohio Railroad Company by a loan of

five millions of dollars to complete their road to

the city of Wheeling, fund their debts, and es-

pecially to lay a double track as far as Piedmont,

two hundred and eighteen miles from Baltimore,

and to confer upon the Mayor and City Council

and the Commissioners of Finance and the Reg-

ister of said city the powers necessary for carry-

ing into effect the provisions of said supplementary

ordinance.'"

WHEREAS there was enacted by the Mayor and

City Council of Baltimore an ordinance approved

Preamble.

the fifth day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-

one, in the terms following, that is to say :

WHEREAS by an ordinance passed on the twenty-

seventh of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-