FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

of the people of said county to assist and enable the construc-
tion of said railroad by exempting the property and obligations
of said railroad company from all county and municipal taxa-
tion for a fixed period, to wit, twenty years. Now, therefore,
the County Commissioners of Caroline county, and the com-
missioners of the town of Denton and Hillsborough, and the
commissioners of any other town and city of said county, now
or hereafter to be incorporated, are authorized, empowered and
directed by ordinance or order to be passed by said County
Commissioners and town commissioners at a regular meeting,
to exempt from all county and municipal taxation, for the
period of twenty years from the date of the passage of this
act, all the stock, bonds, property and franchises of the said
The Queen Anne's Railroad Company; provided, however,
that this act shall be absolutely null and void, unless said rail-
road in Caroline county shall be built and cars running thereon
within five years from the date of the passage of this act.

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SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 6th, 1894.

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CHAPTER 254.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the County Commissioners
of Queen Anne's County, and the Commissioners of the
towns of Centreville and Church Hill, to aid in the con-
struction of the Queen Anne's Railroad Company by
exempting from taxation for the period of thirty years, the
capital stock, bonds, franchises and property of the said
railroad company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly &f
Maryland, That whereas, the Queen Anne's Railroad Com-
pany, a corporation incorporated under the general laws of
this State, of which John B. Brown, William W. Busteed,
B. Palmer Keating, Isaac W. Foxwell and Hugh L. Pope are
the corporators named in the articles of corporation heretofore
filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State, has
been incorporated for the purpose of constructing a railroad in
said county, according to the route laid down in said articles of

Exempt from
taxation.