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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 146.
Preamble.

WHEREAS, The U. S. Government, by a compromise ha&
repaid ten thousand and three hundred and forty-one dollars
and forty-seven cents to the Treasurer of Maryland for said
uniforms, and four hundred and seventy dollars and ninety
cents for said ovens, which pums so paid together with the
amount paid as interest on the emergency fund amount to
thirteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars and
seventy-five cents, all of which is needed and properly belongs
to the militia fund, having been diverted therefrom ; therefore,

Money to be
returned.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Comptroller and the Treasurer of Mary-
land be and they are hereby authorized and directed to return to
the militia fund of the Maryland National Guard the said sum
of thirteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars and
seventy-five cents, to which fund it properly belongs.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.

CHAPTER 147.
AN ACT to amend the charter of "Chesapeake Navigation
and Wharf Company of Baltimore City," a corporation
formed under the Public General Laws of this State, and
to extend and enlarge the powers and privileges of said
company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the charter of "Chesapeake Navigation and
Wharf Company of Baltimore City," a corporation formed

Charter
amended.

under the provisions of Article 23 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, entitled "Corporations," be and
the same is hereby amended so that in addition to the powers
possessed by it under its certificate of incorporation heretofore
obtained and granted under the provisions of said Article 23
of the Code of Public General Laws, shall have the further
and additional powers herein granted.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said

Capital slock

corporation shall consist of five hundred shares of the par
value of fifty dollars each, which stock shall be personal
property, with the privilege to the said corporation to increase
the same from time to time to twenty thousand shares, of the
par value of fifty dollars each, by a majority vote of the
stockholders of the said corporation, at a special meeting to
be called for that purpose after tive days' notice in some news-
paper published in Balttimore city ; of which said stock such