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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said board of

public works be and they are hereby authorized and

directed to contract for the construction of a proper

Contract for

ventilating apparatus for the two halls of the General

ventilating ap-

Assembly in the state house, provided the cost of the

paratus.

same shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five hundred

dollars, and provided further that no furnace or steam

boiler shall be placed in any portion of the state house

building.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the comptroller of

the treasury be and he is hereby authorized and

Issue warrant.

directed to issue his warrant on the treasurer for such

sum of money as may be due for said ventilating

apparatus, under the contract made therefor by said

board of public works, not exceeding, however, the

said sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, the same to

be so drawn upon the order of said board, and their

Certificate of
efficiency.

certificate that the said ventilating apparatus has been

placed in the said halls and is approved by them after

due and proper test of its efficiency; and nothing con-

tained in this act shall entail any expense upon the

state in the event of the failure of said apparatus to

properly ventilate said halls.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 387.

AN ACT to extend the time for the completion of the

road of the Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad

Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the time for the completion of

the main line of the road of the Baltimore and Drum

Time extended

Point Railroad Company be and the same is hereby

extended to the first day of May, in the year eighteen

hundred and ninety, and that none of the rights and

privileges granted to said company by its original

charter, or any supplement thereto, shall be in any