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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

or catching of oysters in any water not over twelve

feet in depth, with scoop, dredge or seine, bar in-

strument, or in any creek, inlet or tributary of said

river.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall

Effective.

take effect from and after the date of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 393.

AN ACT appropriating a sum of money to pay

the claim of John E. McCosker.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the Comptroller of the

Treasury be and he is hereby requested and directed

Issue warrant.

to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer to pay to-

John E. McCosker, of Annapolis, Maryland, the

sum of one hundred and fifty-two dollars and eighty

cents, due him for repairing and material furnished

the Senate and House of Delegates.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 393.

AN ACT to authorize certain Railroad Companies-

to consolidate and form a union with either the

Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail-

road Company or the Delaware Railroad Com-

pany.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That it shall be lawful for any

railroad corporation or corporations created by, or

How lawful.

existing under the laws of this State, whose line or

lines of railroad is, or are located wholly on the east

side of the Chesapeake bay or Susquehanna river,