1320 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

WHEREAS, Said Company has heretofore failed and refused
to furnish adequate service over its existing line for the con-
venience of the public in the section of the State of Maryland
traversed thereby; now, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That in the event of the failure of the Washington, Po-
tomac & Chesapeake Railway Company to comply with any or-
der of the Public Service Commission of Maryland requiring it
to render adequate service over its existing line within this
State by the date specified in such order or within such extension
of time as the Commission may for good cause grant, the charter
and other statutory rights and franchises of said Washington,
Potomac & Chesapeake Railway Company, its successors and
assigns, to maintain or operate its existing line within the limits-
of this State, or to construct, maintain and operate any exten-
sions thereof within the limits of this State shall forever cease
and be determined, whether said right or rights be claimed to
exist under the original charter of the said Company or its
predecessors, or any amendment thereto, or under any public
general laws of this State or under any public local laws of this
State.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 13th, 1914.

CHAPTER 749.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 186
of Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws of the State
of Maryland, entitled "Corporations," sub-title "Insurance
Companies.''

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 186 of Article 23 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, entitled "Corporations," sub-title
"Insurance Companies," be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

186. No corporation or association authorized to transact
business in this State, and no co-partnership or individual, resi-
dent or non-resident, shall write any policy of insurance, or
assume any liability in the matter of insurance upon any prop-
erty, real or personal, situate in this State, unless such policy,