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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

charter, or the amendment hereby made to it, at any time after
the return of eaid inquisitions to the clerks of said courts,
respectively, if no sufficient cause to the contrary be shown,
but ten days after such return, shall be allowed to file objec-
tions to the confirmation of said return.

Name

changed.

SEC. 2. And le it further enacted, That the corporate
name of said Elkton and Middletown Railroad Company is
hereby changed to that of Elkton, Massey's and Middletown
Railroad Company; and the two directors to which, by virtue
of the provisions of the second section of said act of Assembly
of Maryland of 1880, chapter 372, the State of Maryland is
entitled, shall be in addition to the seven directors which,
under section 166 of article 23 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of Maryland, the stockholders are required to elect.

Conditions of
State's sub-
scription.

SEC. 3. That as soon as it shall be made to appear to the
Governor of Maryland that the line of railroad mentioned in
the first section of this act, extending from some point on
the line of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad at or near Elkton, by the way of Chesapeake
City and Cecilton, to some point on the line of the Queen
Anne's and Kent Railroad at or near the station called Mas-
sey's, has been constructed and is in a condition to be operated
throughout its entire length, then the sum of fifty-eight thous-
and ($58,000) dollars, which by the act of Assembly of Mary-
land of 1880, chapter 372, was directed to be paid 'to the said
Elkton and Middletown Railroad Company, shall forthwith
be paid to it; and for this purpose the comptroller of the
treasury of Maryland shall draw liis warrant on the treasurer
of the said State, in favor of the said Elkton and Middletown
Railroad Company, under the new name given to it by this
act, payable out of any unappropriated money in the treasury ;
and thereupon the number of shares of stock in said company,
to which, by the aforesaid act of 1880., chapter 372, the State
of Maryland is declared to be entitled in respect of said fifty-
eight thousand ($58,000) dollars, shall be issued to it as full
paid shares by said company, under its said new name, and
shall entitle the said State to the same rights in said company
as belong to other holders of full paid shares of its stock,
except the right to vote for directors of said company.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That unless the said
Elkton, Massey's and Middletown Railroad Company shall begin
the construction of the said line of railroad, hereinbefore