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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 432.

AN ACT to enable the Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore to endorse or guarantee the second mort-

gage bonds of the Maryland Central Railroad Com-

pany to the amount of four hundred thousand dol-

lars.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the mayor and city council of
Baltimore be and it is hereby authorized and empow-

ered to endorse or guarantee the second mortgage

Guarantee sec-
ond mortgage.

bonds of the Maryland Central Railroad Company to

an amount not exceeding four hundred thousand dol-

lars, upon such terms and conditions as may be deter-

mined upon by the said mayor and city council of

Baltimore.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any ordi-

nance that may be passed by the mayor and city coun-

Ordinance.

cil of Baltimore, for the purpose mentioned in the first

section of this act, be and the same is hereby ratified

and confirmed.

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

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 433.

AN ACT to establish a uniform standard of time

throughout the State of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

Standard time.

of Maryland, That the standard time throughout the
State of Maryland, shall be that of the seventy-fifth
meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, by which

all courts, banking institutions and public offices, and

all legal or official proceedings shall be regulated.

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

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.