WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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and Delta Narrow Gauge Railway Company, with

the Baltimore and Delta Railway Company, as

authorized by the act of the General Assembly of

Maryland, 1878, chapter 195, certified to by the

What consti-
tutes evidence

secretary of State, under his seal of office, shall be

evidence in any court of law or equity in this State.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That in case the Balti-

more and Delta Railway Company should, at any

time hereafter, under the provisions of this act, con-

solidate with any railroad company heretofore char-

tered, or that may be hereafter chartered under the

laws of this State or under the laws of the State of

Pennsylvania, such new corporation shall be liable

for all the contracts, debts, obligations, engagements

and liabilities, at law and in equity, of the respective

New corpora-

companies form such union or consolidation, and

tion liable.

shall hold, enjoy, occupy and be entitled to all the

estate, real, personal and mixed, choses in action,

&c., subject, however, to such lien or liens as may

now be thereon, belonging to or due to each of said

corporations forming such union, and may sue and

be sued, plead and be impleaded on the several

contracts, obligations, claims and demands of the

companies aforesaid,

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the day of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 285.

AN ACT to repeal section three hundred and

twenty-seven of article ninety-three of the Code

of Public General Laws, entitled "Testamentary

Law," and to re-enact the same with amend-

ments, touching the recording and proof within

this State of Wills admitted to probate and re-

corded elsewhere.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That section three hundred and

Repealed and

ninety-seven of article ninety-three of the Code of

re-enacted.

Public General Laws of Maryland, entitled " Testa-