JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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the payment of the salary of the State's Attorney as herein-
after provided for.
Section 287. The said State's Attorney of said Dorchester
county in lieu of the fees heretofore received by him as pro-

CHAP. 172.

Tided for in section twenty-one of Article ten of the Code of
Public General. Laws, or as provided for in any local law for
Dorchester county, shall receive a salary of twelve hundred
dollars per annum as full compensation for his entire services
as required of him by law or which may hereafter be required
of him by any law of this State, to be paid to him by the
said County Commissioners of Dorchester county.

Salary,

Section 288. The said salary of twelve hundred dollars per
annum shall be paid to the said State's Attorney by the said
County Commissioners in equal quarterly instalments the first
day of January, April, July and October in each and every
year, and the said County Commissioners shall levy annually
the said sum of twelve hundred dollars or so much thereof as
may be necessary for the purpose of paying the said salary to
the said State's Attorney.

Levy to be
made.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts, general or local,
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be repealed to
the extent of such conflict with the provisions of this Act.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the first Monday of January in the year nineteen hun-
dred and four.
Approved April 8, 1902.

CHAPTER 173.
AN ACT to incorporate the Hagerstown, Smithburg and
Pen mar Railroad Company.

Repeal

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Lewis T. Byron, Edward W. Mealey, Samnel
B. Rinehart, James E. Hewes, George A. Davis, Alexander
Neill, Jr., Vernon N. Simmons and Chambers M. Craig, and
their successors and assigns, and all other persons who may
hereafter become stockholders in said company, be and they
are hereby constituted a bqdy corporate and politic, under the
name and style of the Hagerstown, Smithburg and Penmar
Railroad Company, and by that name shall have perpetual
succession.

Body
corporate.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said company, under
the above name and style, shall be capable in law to sue and be
sued, to plead and be impleaded, and to answer and to be
answered in any. Court of Law or Equity ; to make and use a

Corporate
powers.