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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That said company is

hereby authorized in the construction of said railroad,

Build bridge.

and the necessary power so to do is hereby granted
them to build bridges across any streams, creeks,

waters or low lands and the purposes of the company

may require; and they may condemn land, easements,

Condemn land.

rights of way, material and privileges for the purposes
of the company, as provided under the general law,
and have all other rights, privileges and powers which

granted by the general laws, so far as the same does

not conflict herewith.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the property of said

Subject to tax-
ation.

company shall be subject to taxation as other prop-

erty.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 488.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to pay James

Revell and John Ireland for services rendered as

counsel for officers of registration.

WHEREAS the payment of a part of the compensa-

tion due the officers of registration appointed under

the act of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, chapter

twenty-two, was resisted by the comptroller of the

state, under the advice of the attorney general, and

James Revell and John Ireland, as counsel to said

Preamble.

officers of registration, instituted and successfully pros-

ecuted proceedings by writ of mandamus in both the

nisi prius and appellate courts to compel the payment

of said resisted compensation, at the request of the

comptroller, who advised them that the same ought

to be paid by the state, declined to charge said officers

of registration for said services; therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

Warrant for

of Maryland, That the comptroller of the treasury

services.

of this state be and is hereby authorized and directed