1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 386.

he is hereby authorized and empowered, to manumit
and set free his three children, Zadock, George, and
Charlotte Ann, any law to the contrary notwithstand-
ing; provided, that the said George, shall with the
deed of manumission, file in the clerk's office in Wor-
cester county, a full description of said children, their
age, sex and heighth; and provided further, that the
rights of third parties shall not he affected by said
deed of manumission.

CHAPTER 386.

Passed April 5,
1839.

An act to provide ways and means to meet the subscrip-
tions on the part of the State, to works of Internal
Improvements.

On release of con-

tract.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That upon a release being executed to the
State of Maryland, by the Chesapeake and Ohio Ca-
nal and the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Companies,
of their respective interests in and under a contract,
made by the two companies, and the commissioners

appointed under an act of the General Assembly of

dred and thirty five, chapter three hundred and nine-
ty-four, entitled, an act for the promotion of internal

And delivery of the

bonds.

improvement, and upon the delivery so far as may be
practicable, to the treasurer of the Western Shore, of
the bonds issued by virtue of said act of Assembly and
sold by the said commissioners 1o the said companies,
which bonds were deposited by said commissioner
with the president and directors of the Union Bank of

Sterling bonds, or

certificates of stock

redeemable in

London after 50

years—deliverable.

Maryland, then and in those events the commissioner
of loans shall be and he is hereby authorized and di-
rected to deliver to the said Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal, and Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Companies,
respectively, an amount of sterling bonds or certifi-
cates of stock, to be redeemable in London at the plea-
sure of the State, at any time after fifty years from the
date thereof, and to bear an interest of five per centum
per annum, payable semi-annnally in London, on the
first day of January and July, in each and every year,

equivalent to the amount of bonds or certificates of