T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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an alienation in the meanwhile of any property now
held by said Williams, as to the court may seem consist-
ent with equity, it being the design of this act to remove
any legal impediment to the granting of the prayer of
said Williams' petition, and to afford him such redress
upon the principles of justice and equity as he may
show himself entitled to when relieved from the opera-
tion of any technical or rigid rule of law.

SBC. 2. And be it enacted, That said court, in its dis-
cretion, may slay execution upon said decree until said
application shall be heard and adjudicated, and either
parly shall have the right to an appeal from any order
or decree to be passed upon the said petition or applica-
tion, and in the event of an appeal, this act shall apply
to the court of appeals in like manner and to the same
extent as it is designed to apply to the court afore-
said.

Court may
stay execu-
tion.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the day of its passage.

CHAPTER 161.

In force.

AN ACT to incorporate the Elkridge Manufacturing
and Milling Company.

Passed
Mar. 8,1854.

WHEREAS, large quantities of iron, grain and other
products of the State of Maryland are annually taken
to the northern and eastern States to be manufactur-
ed, a considerable part of which, when manufactured,
is returned to this State for sale and use, and our
citizens are thereby taxed with the cost of transpor-
tation, commissions, manufacture, profits and other
charges to a great amount in the aggregate, all which
might be saved if the valuable water power in this
State, either wholly unimproved or but partially im-
proved, were fully developed; and whereas this
beneficial purpose can in no way so surely be ac-
complished as by the combination of capital sanc-
tioned and regulated by the laws of this State;
Therefore,

Preamble.