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No. 395. An act to repeal and annul all charters for
gas companies which, may have been granted or is-
sued down to the date of this act, under the Code of
Public General Laws, in Baltimore city, Baltimore
county and Anne Arundel county, or any other law
where the corporations incorporated by said char-
ters respectively, have not erected works and com-

menced the manufacture of gas ...................

No. 396. An act to empower the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore to regulate tenement houses, and

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lodging houses and cellars in the city of Baltimore.

No. 397. An act to declare the sanction of the General
Assembly of Maryland to the holding and disposing
of certain lots of ground by ''The Trustees of the
Sharp Street Station of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of the city of Baltimore," and the "African
Methodist Bethel Church of the city of Baltimore,"
heretofore purchased by said churches and used as

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burial grounds ...................................

No. 398. An act to compel all railroad companies
whose lines pass through Worcester county to place
cattle guards at all crossings of county roads or

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fences on farms through which such lines pass.......

Ko. 399. An act to authorize and direct the County
Commissioners of Caroline county to investigate an
alleged discrepancy or mistake in the accounts of
Curtis A. Wright, late Collector of county taxes of
Caroline county, and Clinton Cooke, late Treasurer
of Caroline county, and to provide for the settle-
ment of any such discrepancy or mistake that may

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be discovered ................... ................

No. 400. An act to authorize and empower the Board
of Managers of the Maryland Hospital for the In-
sane to sell and convey certain land lying between
the bed of the Catonsville Short-Line Railroad Com-
pany and the Frederick Turnpike, and to purchase
in lieu thereof other land more available for the

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purpose of the Hospital ..........................

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