PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1319

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts and parts
of Acts inconsistent with this Act be and the same are hereby
repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from and after the date of its passage.

Approved April 13th, 1914.

CHAPTER 748.

AN ACT to repeal certain charter and other statutory rights of
the Washington, Potomac and Chesapeake Railway Company
to engage in business or exercise its franchises in the State
of Maryland in the event of its failure to comply with any
order of the Public Service Commission of Maryland to be
hereafter passed requiring it to render adequate service over;
its existing lines by the time specified in such order or within
such extension of time as the Commission may, for good cause,
grant.

WHEREAS, By an opinion of the Public Service Commission
of Maryland rendered in the case of Carl Troiel et al. vs. the
Washington, Potomac and Chesapeake Railway Company, filed
February 20, 1914, which is hereby referred to and made a
part hereof as fully as though set out in full in this preamble,
said Public Service Commission has expressed its doubt as
to its ability to pass a valid and legally enforceable order re-
quiring said corporation to render such adequate service to
its patrons and the public in the State of Maryland as said
Commission deems desirable and requisite in the premises; and

WHEREAS, Said Washington, Potomac and Chesapeake Rail-
way Company was incorporated under the laws of this State
and given certain valuable privileges and franchises by the
General Assembly of Maryland, which valuable privileges and
franchises it was assumed at the time of their grant, would
be used for the public welfare and convenience; and

WHEREAS, Large portions of Prince George's, St. Mary's
Charles and Calvert Counties are almost wholly dependent for
their present and future material welfare upon the service fur-
nished by said Washington, Potomac and Chesapeake Railway
Company over its said line; and