T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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to said company at par in payment of said stock or
loan, the amount thereof to be appropriated by said
company in such manner as the said mayor and city
council of the city of Baltimore may direct, or instead
of such loan the said mayor and city council are here-
by authorised to moke such disposition of the slock
heretofore subscribed by the corporation of the city of
Baltimore in the Baltimore and Susquehanna Rail
Road company, and also of the debt heretofore con-
tracted by the said company to the city of Baltimore
as the said mayor and city council may judge condu-
cive to the public interest, and also to give their assent
to any proceedings that may be considered advisable
for making said stock and debt or any part thereof
available for the completion of the road of the said
consolidated company to Sunbury or to tide water.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 261.

In force.

AN ACT for the relief of William Seymore, a free negro
in Talbot county.

Passed
Mar. 10, 1854.

WHEREAS, William Seymore a free negro came from
the Eastern shore of Virginia, in the year eighteen
hundred and forty-six, in the employment of a cap-
lain of a vessel, owned then and commanded by
said owner, engaged in running wood from Talbot
county for some years; and whereas, said free negro
after the owner and commander of said vessel quit
running her from that county, remained in Talbot
county, and has been residing there ever since en-
gaged in the constant service of residents of said
county; and whereas, the good character of said
free negro is certified to by number of respectable cit-
izens of said county, and lately an effort is about to

Preamble.