1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 90.

Passed Jan.
31, 1846.

CHAPTER 89.

An act to provide for the admission of the Statutes of the
several States and Territories of this Union, as evidence
in the Courts of this State.

Statutes of
other States,
&c. evidence.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in all trials at law or in the courts of
equity, or before justices of the peace, it shall be com-
petent for either party to read in evidence the public or
private statutes of any of the States or Territories of the
United States, from any printed volume purporting to
contain the statutes of said State or States, or Territory
or Territories, and the said printed volume shall in all
cases be received as evidence of said statutes without
any further authentication or proof thereof.

In force after
its passage.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall be in
force from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 90.

Passed Feb.
2, 1846

An act for the relief of the Union Company, and for the
organization of the Cumberland Coal Mining Com-
pany.

Repealed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That so much of the first section of the act
entitled, an act to incorporate the Union Company, as
restricts the right of said company to purchase lands sub-
sequent to its organization, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed; and that so much of the act to incorporate the
Cumberland Coal Mining Company as limits the time for
the construction of the railways of that company, and
requires that its lands shall lie on Dan's mountain, be and
the same is hereby repealed; and whereas, Duff Green
hath represented to this General Assembly that lie hath
made arrangements with the parties in interest, whereby
the said Green and his associates are entitled to the use
of the said incorporation, it is hereby further enacted, that

May proceed
to organize.

the said Green and his associates may proceed to organize
said Cumberland Coal Mining Company, by opening
books of subscription therefor; and said company, when
thus organized, may purchase lands from time to time as
they may deem expedient, and issue stock thereon as a