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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 292.

AN ACT to empower the County Commis-
sioners of Caroline county to subscribe to
the capital stock of the Delaware and Chesa-
peake Railway, and to issue the bonds of
the county to the amount of forty thousand
dollars, for the purpose of assisting in the
constructing a lateral branch, and to levy a
a tax on the taxable property of said
county for the redemption of said bonds ;
provided, that on submission of the ques-
tion to the legal voters of said county, there
shall appear to be a majority thereof favor-
able to such subscription.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That 011 the Tuesday
after the first Monday in November, in the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, being
the second day of said month, the County
Commissioners of Caroline county shall sub-

Submission
to voters.

mit to the legal voters thereof, the question
whether they will vote for or against a sub-
scription to the capital stock of the Delaware
and Chesapeake Railway, to the amount of
forty thousand dollars, to be applied to aid in
the construction of a lateral branch of said
railway from a point on said railway at or
near Greensborough, and running to and con-
necting with the Cambridge and Seaford Rail-
road Company.

Ballots.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said
County Commissioners shall cause to be printed
or written on the ballots to be used at the said
election, when said question of subscription
shall be presented to the said legal voters, the
words "For the subscription to the Delaware
and Chesapeake Railway," and the words
"Against the subscription to the Delaware and
Chesapeake Railway," and they are hereby
authorized to pay the cOst of such ballots.