INDEX TO THE PUBLIC LAWS.

COMMISSIONER OF LOANS— Treasurer to pay the

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par value of said stock of said proceeds to the

Baltimore and Susquehanna R. R. Co. to

be appropriated by said company to the ob-

jects, &c. specified in the act of 1838, ch.

395; Commissioner of Loans to reserve

and place in the hands of the treasurer a

sufficient amount of said bonds at par value

equal to, and in payment of all arrearages

of interest due on 1st February, 1840, by

said company, to the State,

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If at any time the legislature shall, by

law, see fit so to require, said company

shall provide a sufficient number of cars,

and to transport at the request of the own-
er, &c. lime, &c. at the rates established by

the charter of the company, &c. the own-

er, &c. to bear all the charges of loading,
&c. said cars to be provided, &c. at their

usual stopping places, &c.

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This act not to take effect until the stock-

holders of said company, &c. and the city

of Baltimore, by ordinance, &c. shall have

respectively assented to the same, and shall

have agreed that the change in the stock

hereby authorised, shall not affect the liens, &c.

of the State &c. the same to remain un-

impaired and be as effectual to secure the

principal, &c. of the loans, &c. as if no

change had been made, &c.
CORPORATIONS— See Foreign Corporations.

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COUNTY COURTS— See Courts of Chancery—Free
Negro and Mulatto Children.

COURTS OF CHANCERY— The county courts of this

State as courts of equity, or any judge,

authorised to decree the sale in all cases of

land, &c. held jointly or in common, &c.

sale under such decree shall pass to pur-
chaser all the right, &c. of all persons par-

ties to the suit, &c.

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If any feme covert, by marriage with one

of the joint tenents, &c. shall have acquir-

ed a potential right of dower, or part of

the estate to be sold, such right, &c. de-

clared to be within the power of the court

or judge, to decree the sale, &c.

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