FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Comptroller, be and he is hereby authorized and directed to
pay Isaac M. Fisher, late collector of State taxes of Frederick
county, for eighteen hundred and ninety and eighteen hundred
and ninety-one, the sum of three hundred and thirty-three
dollars and fifty-four cents, the same having been erroneously
paid by him into the treasury, and certified as insolvent,
removals and erroneous assessments, and its repayment being
recommended by the Comptroller of the Treasury.

Appropria-
tion.

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

Approved April 6th, 1894.

CHAPTER 540.

AN ACT to authorize the Great Falls Power Company to
erect dams, hold real estate and erect and maintain lines for
the transmission of electricity in Montgomery County and
Prince George's County, in the State of Maryland.

Effective.

WHEREAS, The General Assembly of Virginia, by an act
approved March 3, 1894, granted certain rights to the Great
Falls Power Company, in the words and figures following,
to wit :

Preamble.

" SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
the State of Virginia, That Oliver D. Barrett, Nehemiah G.
Ordway, Paul Butler, John B. Cotton, Frank L. Washburn,
and such other persons as they may associate with them, be and
the same are hereby incorporated and made a body politic
under the name and style of the Great Falls Power Company,
for the purpose of acquiring, holding, improving and using
water power at and near the Great Falls in the Potomac river,
and for constructing dams therein, canals and other hydraulic
and auxiliary steam works, which acts are hereby authorized,
and for the selling and leasing of water power, and for the
using the same for manufacturing and other purposes, and f61
generating, transmitting, selling and leasing electricity, electric
power and light, for railway and canal as well as other pur-
poses, including also power to acquire by right of emineni
domain in case the use is public or by purchase or otherwise,
and to hold and improve real and personal property for the

Act of
Virginia,