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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ages shall be sustained, and also be subject to an
indictment in the Circuit Court for the county
where such offence may be committed and upon
conviction of such offence shall be punished by fine
and imprisonment in the discretion of said court.

Road to be
commenced
and finished.

Sec. 19. And bejt enacted, That if this road
shall not be commenced in two years from the pas-
sage of this act, and shall not be finished in ten
years from the time of its commencement, then this
act shall be null and void.

Banking priv
ilegea prohibit
ed.

Sec. 20. And be it enacted. That nothing in this
" act shall be so construed as to authorize the said
company to issue any note, token, script or other
evidence of debt, to be used as currency, and the
Legislature hereby reserves the right to alter,
amend or repeal this act at pleasure.

Empowered
to subscribe.

Sec. 21. And be it enacted, That a majority of
the Commissioners of Washington county, and the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, be and they
are hereby each authorized and empowered to sub-
scribe in behalf of said county or said city, respec-
tively, to the capital stock of the said Washington
County Railroad Company, such amount not exceed-
ing two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for said
county or the said city, as they may think proper in
their discretion; and in paymentof saidsubscription
to issue bonds in the name of said county or said
city, and to sell the same for the payment of the
amount so respectively subscribed, at such times
and in such instalments as may be approved by a
majority of the said Commissioners or said Mayor
and City Council for the time being, each of said
bonds to be accompanied by coupons for the interest
thereon, at the rate of six per cent, per annum,
payable half-yearly.

Authorized to
levy.

Sec. 22. And be it enacted, That a majority of
the Commissioners of said county and the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, be and they are
hereby respectively authorized and directed to levy
upon the real and personal estate of said county or
city such amount as may be necessary for the pay-
ment of the debts and interest, evidenced by the
bonds of said county or city, respectively, at the
times therein stipulated for the payment thereof,
the said taxes to be levied and collected as other
taxes in said county or city are levied and collected.