A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER 314.

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AN ACT to amend the twenty-first Article of the
Code of Public Local Laws relating to Wash-
ington county, by adding thereto certain sec-
tions authorizing the County Commissioners of
said county to endorse or guarantee the second
mortgage bonds of the Western Maryland Rail-
road Company to an amount not exceeding, in
the aggregate, the sum of three hundred thou-
sand dollars.

Passed March
7,1864.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of
Washington county be and they are hereby au-
thorized and empowered to endorse or guarantee,
on behalf of said county, the principal and inter-
est upon the second mortgage bonds of the West-
ern Maryland Railroad Company to an amount
not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars, in
such manner and form as they, the said County
Commissioners, may deem best, and at any time
hereafter as they may deem proper.

County Com-
missioners au-
thorized to en-
dorse.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That if it shall become
necessary, at any time after said Commissioners
shall have exercised the authority granted them
by the preceding section, to provide for the pay-
ment of the principal and interest upon the bonds
so endorsed, the said Commissioners shall pro-
vide for the same by levy upon the assessable
property in the said county.

To provide by
levy.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from its passage.

In force.