LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

thereof for the paving of which said series was issued, on ac-
count of which said money was received, as provided in section
182 D.

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182 H The Mayor and Council shall cause to be kept a care-
ful register of each series of said bonds so issued and the trans-
fers thereof, and as the same are called in and paid off, they
shall be cancelled, and a record of such cancellation, by series,
numbers, amounts, and names of last holders of said bonds,
shall be made and entered upon the books in which said bonds
are registered.

Registry to
be kept.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 2, 1896.

CHAPTER 172.

AN ACT to repeal Section two of Chapter 310 of the Acts
of Assembly of Maryland of eighteen hundred and ninety-
two, entitled "an Act prescribing the regulations and condi-
tions upon which the Board of Public Works shall sell the
State's interest in all works of improvement."

Effective.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section two of chapter three hundred and ten of
the Acts of Assembly of Maryland of eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
so as to read as follows :

2. The Board of Public Works are hereby authorized and

Repeal.

directed, whenever they shall determine it to be for the best inter-
est of the State to sell the whole or any part of the following State
stocks and securities, to wit: Fifty-five hundred shares of the
capital stock of the Washington Branch of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company; six hundred shares of the capital
stock of the Annapolis Water Company; fifteen hundred and
forty-nine shares of the capital stock of the Farmers' National
Bank of Annapolis; mortgage of the Northern Central Rail-
road Company to the State of Maryland, securing an annuity
of ninety thousand dollars to the said State of Maryland, all
now held and owned by the State of Maryland. And in mak-
ing sale of such stock or securities the said Board of Public
Works are directed to proceed as directed in section one of the

Sale of State's
securities.