1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 286.

value or income of property they, as corporations,
may hold, shall not apply, but the incorporated
associations mentioned in this section, may respec-
tively have a capital stock divided into snares, as
they may severally regulate, to an amount not ex-
ceeding three hundred thousand dollars.

Repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the nineteenth
section of the Code of Public General Laws, which
provides for the formation of corporations for the
purchase, improvement, sale and leasing of land in
the city of Baltimore be and the same is hereby re-
pealed.

In force.

SEC. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the day of its passage.

CHAPTER 286.

Passed March
5, 1860.

AN ACT entitled, an act to extend the powers of
the commissioners of Baltimore county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General As-
sembly of Maryland, that many of the streets in
the city of Baltimore, are now graded and paved to
the line of Baltimore county, and that the commis-
sioners of Baltimore county have at present no au-
thority to extend said streets into said county.

Authorised
to lay out and
open streets.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That from and after the passage of
this act, the county commissioners of Baltimore
county, be and they are hereby authorised and em-
powered to lay out, condemn and open for the
length of not less than one mile in Baltimore
county, any street or streets leading from the city
of Baltimore, and which may have been paved to
the line of Baltimore county.

Assessment of
damages, &c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That upon application
in writing of two-thirds of the different owners of
property along the line of the proposed street to be
extended, the county commissioners of Baltimore
county shall appoint three disinterested parties,
who shall be landholders and residents of Baltimore