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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 503

CHAPTER 503.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Section
355 of Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland, known as the Code of 1904, title "Corpora-
tions," sub-title "Turupike, Plank Road and Passenger
Railway Companies."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 355 of Article 23 of the Code of Public

Repeal and
re-enact.

General Laws of Maryland, known as the Code of 1904,
title "Corporations," sub-title " Turnpike, Plank Road and
Passenger Railway Companies," be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows :

355. If within six months after the date of an order of

Road forfeited
by corpora-
tion.

the court forfeiting the right of the corporation to charge
tolls, the said road shall not have been put in good order
and repair within the limits of the county in which said
order may have been passed, the said road within said
county shall be forfeited by the corporation, and shall vest
in the County Commissioners, who shall cause the same to
be put and kept in good order and repair, and collect tolls
sufficient for that purpose, or may transfer the same to
another corporation in their discretion, in which case the
new corporation shall have the same rights and franchises
and be subject to the same conditions and forfeitures as the
original corporation constructing said road; provided, how-
ever, that whenever proceedings as aforesaid have been insti-

Proviso.

tuted against a turnpike company incorporated under any
special Act of Assembly containing provisions for penalties
or forfeitures other than those in this article prescribed, it
shall be the duty of the clerk of the court in which such
proceedings were so instituted upon the expiration of a period
of six months after the passage of the order of court pre-
scribed in Section 353 of this article, to certify to the Gov-
ernor of Maryland the fact, if such be then the case, that
such order was passed and stands unrevoked; whereupon it
shall be the duty of the Governor to direct the State's attor-
ney of said county to forthwith file a petition in such court
in the name of the State of Maryland praying the forfeiture
of the charter of the company so in default and reciting the
proceedings aforesaid, and thereafter the proceedings shall