WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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to the holder or holders of said license the propor-

tionate of money for the residue of the year such

license has to run.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 346.

AN ACT to authorize and enable Wm. J. Thomas,

proprietor of the wharf at the foot of High street,

Cambridge, Dorchester county, to extend and

enlarge the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That Wm. J. Thomas, proprietor

of the wharf extending in the Choptank river from

the foot cf High street, in the town of Cambridge,

"Extension of
wharf.

Dorchester county, and built under a charter granted

by an act passed at the session of eighteen hundred

and twenty-two, be authorized and enabled to extend

and enlarge the same as follows:

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the extension and

enlargement of said wharf shall commence at a point

Where to com-
mence.

at the foot of High street, on the southern point of

the said wharf, connecting with said street, and run-

ning the same course of said street towards the

channel of the Choptank river, north fifty-one de-

grees east, until it reaches a point where this line

is intersected by another line running a northernly

direction from the outer or river line of the pier, at

the end of said wharf, and parallel with said pier,

so that the outer or river line of this enlargement

and extension, and the outer or river line of the

said pier, shall be one and the same straight line,

and no deposit of shells or any other impediment to
free navigation shall extend beyond this said line,

Not to deposit
shells, &c.

and the said extension and enlargement, when com-

pleted, shall be the property of the said William J.

Thomas.

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

Effective.

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1882.