ALBERT C. RITCHIE., GOVERNOR. 1659
NO. 26.

A Joint Resolution approving Chapter 596 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of the Session of 1924, au-
thorizing and directing the County Commissioners of Cal-
vert County to subscribe to the capital stock of the Balti-
more and Virginia Railroad Company, or of any other cor-
poration that shall build a railroad from a point at or near
Dram Point in Calvert County to a point at or near Millers-
ville in Anne Arundel County, and providing in the alter-
native, that should Anne Arundel County not join with
Calvert County in subscribing for stock in a company that
shall undertake to build a railroad between or near the
termini Millersville and Drum Point, this Act authorizing
and directing the County Commissioners of Calvert County
to subscribe to the capital stock of the Baltimore and Vir-
ginia Railroad Company, or of any other corporation that
shall build a railroad from a point at or near Drum Point
in Calvert County to connect with the Chesapeake Beach
Railway at or near Owings, in Calvert County; and further
repealing Chapter 720 of the Acts of 1912, Joint Resolu-
tion No. 5, passed at the session of 1914, Joint Resolution
No. 3, passed at the session of 1916, when and only in the
event that said Act be adopted in accordance with the pro-
visions of Section 54 of Article 3 of the Constitution of
Maryland.

WHEREAS,, At the January session of the General Assembly
of Maryland, as Chapter 596 of the Acts of 1924, an act was
passed authorizing and directing the County Commissioners
of Calvert County to subscribe to certain capital stock in the
words following, to wit:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Calvert County
be and they are hereby authorized and directed, in the name
of and for said Calvert County, to subscribe for and hold
shares of the capital stock of the Baltimore and Virginia Rail-
road Company, or any other corporation that shall build a
railroad from a point at or near Drum Point, in Calvert
County, to a point at or near Millersville, in Anne Arundel
County, and in the event that Anne Arundel County fails to
join in aiding the building of said railroad and fails to sub-
scribe for stock in the corporation that undertakes to build