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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That whenever two-fifths of the capital

stock of any turnpike company in Frederick county,

chartered and organized since the first day of January,

eighteen hundred and eighty-four, or to be hereafter

organized, shall have been subscribed for and taken

by responsible bona-fide stockholders, the county com-

Commission-

missioners of said county are hereby authorized and

ers authorized
to subscribe.

empowered to subscribe for such portion of the re-

maining three-fifths of the said capital stock as they,

in their discretion, may deem proper, in the name and

for the benefit of said county, and shall be entitled to

be represented at all meetings of the stockholders of

said company by the county commissioners for the

time being, or by such person or persons as may be

duly authorized by them; provided said road or roads

so subscribed to shall be graded for a width of twenty

feet, twelve of which shall be covered with stone of

an average depth of nine inches; provided also, that

in accordance with the provisions of article three, sec-

tion fifty-four, of the constitution, this act shall be

Act to be pub-
lished.

published in the newspapers, printed in said county,

for two months before the next election for members

of the house of delegates, and shall also be approved

by a majority of all the members elected to each

house of the general assembly at its next session

after said election.

Approved March 20, 1884.

Chapter 81.

AN ACT to empower the Agricultural and Mechan-
ical Society of Harford county to protect their
grounds by appointing Special Constables for the
same.

Preamble.

WHEREAS a number of persons have formed an
association for the advancement of agricultural and
mechanical pursuits in Harford county, and are now
incorporated under the general act of incorporation of
the State of Maryland; therefore —