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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said new voting precincts of said fourth election district,
but shall direct the registers of voters so to be appointed
by said board for such new voting precincts to enter
upon their respective new registration books and to tran-
scribe thereto respectively, from the old registration books
of said fourth election district, the names of the voters residing
in and properly belonging to such new voting precincts of said
fourth election district respectively.

Effective.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1898.

CHAPTER 210.
AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more to issue the stock of the said Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore to the amount of one million eight hundred and
seventy-five thousand dollars ($1,875.000), to be used for the
purposes and in the manner provided by an ordinance of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, approved on the 9th
day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled
"An ordinance to provide for issuing the stock of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, and to sell the same, for the
purpose of providing means to enable the "Western Maryland
Railroad Company to pay and extinguish all of its third
mortgage bonds, amounting to eight hundred and seventy-
five thousand dollars ($875,000), guaranteed by the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, when the same shall mature
on the first day of January, 1900, and also to enable the Mayor
and City Council to pay and extinguish one million dollars
($1,000,000) of the stock of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore loaned to the Western Maryland Railroad Company,
and falling due on the first day of January, 1902, secured
by a covenant of the Western Maryland Railroad Company
with the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, bearing date
the third day of April, 1872, and recorded among the land
records of Baltimore city in Liber G. R. No. 561, folio 16,
etc., and to provide a sinking fund for the redemption of
the stock authorized to be issued by this ordinance," and to
ratify and confirm said ordinance, and to confer upon the