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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 327.

Passed Mar.
10, 1856.

AN ACT amendatory of an act passed at January
session, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, chapter
one hundred and fifty-three, entitled an act to in-
corporate the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad com-
pany.

Repealed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That so much of the act passed at
January session, eighteen hundred and fifty-three,
chapter one hundred and fifty-three, as provides that
if the said road shall not be commenced in six years
from the passage of the said act, and shall not be fin-
ished in four years from the commencement thereof,
then the said act to be null and void, be and the
same is hereby repealed.

To be null and
void.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if the railroad
incorporated by the act to which this is amendatory
shall not be commenced on or before the tenth day
of March, eighteen hundred and sixty, and shall not
be finished in four years thereafter immediately suc-
ceeding, then the said act and the privileges therein
granted shall cease and be in nil respects null and
void.

CHAPTER 328.

Passed Mar.
10, 1856.

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the
Government for the year ending on the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and fifty eight.

Sums appro-
priated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That for the expenditure in the support
of the government for the year ending on the first day
of January, eighteen hundred fifty eight, the following
sums of money, or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary, be and the same is hereby appropriated, that is
to say: for the salary of the Governor of this State,
three thousand six hundred dollars; for the salary of
the Secretary of State, one thousand dollars; for the