ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 655

	Chapter 491.
	AN ACT to provide for the maintenance of so much
	of the respective sinking funds of the state provided
	for in the acts creating the loans for the benefit of
	the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and for the Maryland
	Hospital for the Insane, and for the further main-
	tenance of the general sinking fund of the state.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
	of Maryland, That the bonds of the Baltimore and
	Ohio Railroad Company, to the amount of three hun-
	dred and sixty-six thousand dollars, delivered to the
	treasurer of the state under the provisions of the	Bonds and in- terest.
	act of assembly of January session, eighteen hundred
	and seventy-eight, chapter one hundred and fifty-five,
	and also the amount of arrears of interest now due to
	the state from the Susquehanna and Tide-water Canal
	companies, and about to be paid to the state by the
	Philadelphia and Reading Railroad company, be and
	the same are hereby directed to be held by the treas-
	urer of the state to the credit of the respective sinking	Credit sinking
	funds provided for in the acts creating the loans for	funds.
	the benefit of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum and for
	the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, and shall be
	deemed to be appropriated to such funds in the pro-
	portions required by the respective deficiencies of said
	sinking funds; and that the balance, if any, of said
	bonds, and the interest thereon, and of the said arrears
	of interest due from said canal companies remaining
	after providing for the aforesaid respective sinking
	funds of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and of the
	Maryland Hospital for the Insane, shall be held by
	the treasurer to the credit of the general sinking fund
	of the state.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	Effective.
	effect from the date of its passage.
	Approved April 8, 1884.