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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

consent of the owner or owners thereof being first had and
obtained ; and in case the said company cannot agree with the
said owner or owners of any property or rights which may be
needed by said company for the purpose of manufacturing,
generating, furnishing or distributing electricity, or in case the
said owner or owners, or any of them, be feme covert,
under age, non compos mentis, or out of the county when
such property or rights may be needed, the said company may
proceed to condemn and acquire the same, and any stream or
streams for the purposes aforesaid, said condemnation proceed-
ings to conform to and be in accordance with the laws of the
State of Maryland ; and to connect said lines, conductors and
conduits with any manufactory or private buildings, lamps, or
other structures, objects, cars or conveyances in Washington
county, aforesaid.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the mortgage executed by

Mortgage
approved.

the Hagerstown Railway Company of Washington county,
Maryland, to the Commonwealth Guarantee, Trust and Safe
Deposit Company of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as trustee, on
the first of May, 1896, and duly recorded among the record of
Washington county, upon the property, rights and franchises of
said company, as therein expressed, to secure the payment of
the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00), and
the bonds issued thereunder by said railway company, be and
the same are hereby approved, sanctioned and confirmed.

Effective.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 9, 1898.

CHAPTER 480.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
fifty of Article ten of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
"Dorchester County," sub-title "Cambridge," and to add a
sub-section to Section eighty of said Article ten ; and to add
a sub section to Section eighty-three of said Article, authoriz-
ing the Commissioners of Cambridge to issue bonds for the
sum of five thousand dollars for the purpose of putting in
sewers.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Repeal.

land, That section fifty of Article ten of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Dorchester County," sub title ''Cambridge,"
be and the same is hereby repealed and re enacted with amend-
ments, so as to read as follows :