THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845.

CHAPTER 313.

An act supplementary to an act to incorporate the Balti-
more and Ohio Rail Road Company.

CHAP. 314.

Passed Mar.
6, 1846.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in exercising the authority given to the Baltimore
and Ohio rail road company, by the act passed at De-
cember session, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, chap-
ter one hundred and twenty-three, to which this is a sup-
plement, to borrow money for the objects of the said act,
the president and directors of the said company, or a ma-
jority of them, shall be and they are hereby authorised to
make and execute bonds or certificates of indebtedness
under the seal of said company, for such sum or sums,
and payable at such time or times, and to sell and dis-
pose of the same on such terms, as to the said president

Execute bonds
or certificates
of indebted-

ness.

and directors may seem proper; provided, that nothing
herein contained shall be taken to authorise the said com-
pany to issue any thing in the nature of a bank note, or
other paper, to be used for circulation as a currency.

CHAPTER 314.

Proviso.

Issues forbid.

An act for the benefit of negro Per re Wilson, of Queen
Anne's County.

Passed Mar.
6, 1846.

WHEREAS, it appears by the petition of Levi Baxter,
James S. Baxter and Christopher Baxter, of Queen
Anne's county, that their father formerly held and owned
a negro slave named Robert Wilson, who subsequently
became entitled to his freedom; and that the said Ro-
bett Wilson after he became free, accumulated personal
property to the amount of four or five hundred dollars,
and afterwards died leaving an only child named Perre,
a slave belonging to the heirs of the late Matthew Tilgh-
man, deceased; and whereas, the said petitioners have
prayed that Christopher Baxter, administrator of the
said Robert Wilson, may be authorised to appropriate
the proceeds of the personal estate of the said Robert
Wilson towards purchasing the said negro, Perre; and
that the said Christopher Baxter, may be authorised and
empowered to manumit and set him free — therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Christopher Baxter, administrator Ro-

Authorised to
purchased ne-

gro.