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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 345.

AN ACT to enable the Downsville and Hagers-
town turnpike company of Washington county
to construct a turnpike with a bed of twelve
inches thickness in the centre, and tapering
therefrom each way to a thickness of nine
inches at each side.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the Downsville and

Authority to
construct.

Hagerstown turnpike company be and it is
hereby authorized to construct its turnpike
from Hagerstown to Downsville, in Washing-
ton county, with a bed fifteen feet in width, and
with a thickness of twelve inches in the centre
of the road-bed, and sloping off to each side to
a thickness of nine inches.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from and after June the first, eighteen
hundred and eighty-eight.

Approved April 4, 1888.

Chapter 346.

AN ACT to incorporate the "Board of Home
Missions of the General Synod of the Evan-
gelical Lutheran Church in the United States
of America."
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

Incorporated.

bly of Maryland, That Charles S. Albert, M. W.
Hamma, William E. Parson, Jesse G. Roller,
Aaron S. Hartman, Edward D. Miller, John W.
Rice, Albert F. Fox and Lemuel T. Appold and
their successors, as they shall from time to time
be chosen and appointed in the manner herein-
after set forth, be and they hereby are made,
declared and constituted a body politic and cor-
porate by the name of the "Board of Home
Missions of the General Synod of the Evangeli-
cal Lutheran Church in the United States of
America," and by that name shall have perpet-