T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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supplements, as may be necessary to create and estab-
lish said consolidated company, and bring its organiza-
tion into agreement and consistency with the terms and
conditions of the charter of the several companies of
which the said consolidated company shall be compos-
ed; And provided also, that the parties to the consoli-
dated company shall be authorised and empowered to
adopt and conform the organization of the said con-
solidated company to such provisions or enactments as
may be required by the legislature of the State of Penn-
sylvania, touching the name of said corporation, and
the construction of the board of president and directors
in said consolidated company, and the conditions relat-
ing to their appointments.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect whenever, and as soon as the said parties herein-
before referred to shall have agreed to consolidate their
several companies into one, and shall have settled, de-
termined and agreed upon the terms and conditions of
such consolidation in conformity with the provisions of
this act, and shall make a full record and report there-
of, certified by the president of said consolidated com-
pany, and have transmitted the same to the Governor of
Maryland, to be recorded and preserved in the office of
the Secretary of State; a copy of which record duly
authenticated, under the seal of the Secretary of State,
shall be evidence thereof in all courts of justice.

CHAPTER 251.

To take effect.

AN ACT to authorise the county commissioners of
Prince George's county, to appropriate and use the
Tobacco Fund of said county now in their hands.

Passed
Mar. 10, 1854.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly,
That there is a large fund called the tobacco fund,
amounting to near two thousand dollars in the
hands of the county commissioners for Prince
George's county, which said fund as it now is, is of

Preamble.