540

	540	LAWS OF MARYLAND.
	Appropria- tion.	SEC. 11. Be it enacted, That the sum of $5,000 per year for the years 1896 and 1897 is hereby appropriated for the use of the Bureau of Immigration in carrying out the provisions of this article, gaid fund to be known and designated as the Immi- gration Fund, and the Comptroller shall draw his warrant on said fund upon the requisition of the Board of Immigration Commissioners.
	Term of office of board.	SEC. 12. Be it enacted, That the first term of office of the Board of Immigration Commissioners hereby appointed shall commence on the first day of May, in the year 1896, and if there be not sufficient opportunity after the adoption of this Article for the Governor to appoint such board, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate at its present session, he is hereby authorized to make such appointment, subject to the approval of the Senate at its next session. And be it enacted, that all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
	Effective.	SEC. 13. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved April. 2, 1896. CHAPTER 296. AN ACT to add a new section to Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Corporations," sub title "Rail- roads," to come in after Section 180, and to be designated as Section 180 A, authorizing the sale of live stock, and certain other freight, by railroad companies in certain cases.
	Hew section.	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- land, That an additional section be and the same is hereby added to Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Corporations," sub-title "Railroads," to come immediately after section 180, to be known as section 180 A, and to read as follows :
	When rail- roads may sell freight	180 A. Whenever freight forwarded upon any railroad to any point in this State shall consist of live stock, or shall be of such a perishable nature, or so damaged, or of such other character as to make it impracticable for it to remain in the possession of the company owning or operating said railroad, for the space of three months after its arrival at the point to