ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Company, represented in person, or by proxy, at a

general or special meeting to be convened as provided

by law.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said Western

Maryland Tidewater Railroad Company, or such other

company as may at any time hereafter maintain and

manage Eaid road, shall be required to run between

the Howardville station, a connection with the West-

ern Maryland .Railroad and the central city station of

Number of

such managing road, not less than two passenger trains

trains to run.

per day each way, one in the forenoon between the

hours of seven and eleven o'clock, and one in the

afternoon between the hours of two and seven o'clock ;

such trains to go between said stations over the

Gwynn's Falls road, and to be required to stop for

passengers at Windsor, Calverton, Wetheredsville,

and all crossings of other railroads, either steam or

horse.

Approved March 27, 1884.

Chapter 130.

AN ACT to add a new section to article thirty of

the Code of Public General Laws, title " Crimes

and Punishments," providing for the punishment of

incest.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the following section be added to

article thirty of the Code of Public General Laws,

Section added.

title " Crimes and Punishments," to come in after sec-

tion seventy-two, and to be called section seventy-

three :

73. Every person who shall knowingly have carnal

knowledge of another person, being within the degrees

of consanguinity within which marriages are prohib-

ited by law in this State, shall be deemed guilty of

When deemed

felony, and upon indictment therefor and conviction

guilty of felony

thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the peni-

tentiary for a term not less than one nor more than

ten years, in the discretion of the court.

Approved March 31, 1884.