LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

hundred and twenty-seven, entitled "An Act to incorporate the
Baltimore and Loreley Railway Company," be, and the same is
hereby amended so as to change the name and title of said cor-
poration from "The Baltimore and Loreley Electric Railway
Company," as it now stands in said act, to "The Baltimore,
Gardensville and Bel Air Electric Railway Company."

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

Approved April 2d, 1896.

CHAPTER 249.

AN A.CT to protect reporters and other newspaper men from
being compelled to disclose the source of any news or infor-
mation procured for publication in any legal or legislative
proceedings in the State of Maryland.

Effective.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the
State of Maryland, That no person engaged in, connected
with or employed on a newspaper or journal shall be compelled
to disclose in any legal proceeding or trial, or before any com-
mittee of the Legislature or elsewhere, the source of any news
or information procured or obtained by him for and published
in the newspaper on and in which he is engaged, connected
with or employed.

Reporters
need not
disclose
source of
news.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 2d, 1896.

CHAPTER 250.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Board of County
School Commissioners of Cecil County to grant unto Martha
Biddle, of said county, an allowance out of the public school
funds, not exceeding ten dollars per month, for her life.

Effective.

WHEREAS, Martha Biddle, of Cecil county, has been
teacher in the public schools of Cecil county, continuously
'since the establishment of the public system in this State, and
was a teacher in said county for several years prior to thay

Preamble.