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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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,
&c., and provide a sinking fund for the redemption of the
stock authorized to be issued by this ordinance," be and the
same is hereby ratified and confirmed, and full power and
authority is hereby conferred upon the said Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore to issue and sell the stock mentioned in
said ordinance and thereby provided to be issued to the amount
therein stated, and in the manner and upon the terms therein
provided, and to hold the election for approval or disapproval
of the said ordinance in the manner provided therein, and full
power and authority is hereby conferred upon the president
and directors of the Western Maryland Railroad Company to
execute the mortgage to the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more required to be executed by said company under the terms
of said ordinance, and in the mode thereby provided.

Effective .

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1 898.

CHAPTER 212.
AN ACT to add additional Sections to the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Harford County," under a
new sub-title "Gaming," to follow the sub title "Fish," and
to be known as Sections 136 A and 136 B, to follow Section
136 of said Article.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary -

New section
added.

land, That the following additional sections be added to the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Harford
County," under the new sub title "Gaming," to follow the
sub-title "Fish," and to be known as section 136 A and 136 B,
to follow section 136 of said Article.
136 A. It shall be unlawful for any person or association of

Unlawful to
gamble, etc.

persons to bet, wager or gamble, in any manner, or by any means,
or make, sell, or buy books or pools or any interest therein, within
the limits of Harford county, upon the result of any trotting,