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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 10.

Passed Janu-
ary 28, 1858.

AN ACT to make valid and effectual an agree-
ment between the George's Creek Coal and
Iron Company, and the Cumberland and Penn-
sylvania Rail Road Company.

Made valid.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the contract and agree-
ment made between the George's Creek Coal and
Iron Company, and the Cumberland and Penn-
sylvania Rail Road Company, on the ninth day
of July, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-
seven, and recorded in Liber H. R., No. 16, folios
114, &c., one of the land records of Allegany
county, be and the same is hereby ratified, con-
firmed and made as valid and effective, to all in-
tents and purposes, as though said Companies had
possessed full power and authority, under their
respective charters, to make the same.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act
shall take effect from and after its passage,

CHAPTER 11.

Passed Febru-
ary 10, 1858.

AN ACT to incorporate the Methodist Preachers
Aid Society, of the East Baltimore Confer-
ence, and to give the assent of the Legislature,
to the payment and delivery by the Methodist
Preachers Aid Society of Baltimore, of certain
funds and property to said Methodist Preachers
Aid Society, of the East Baltimore Conference.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by an act of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed at December Session, eighteen
hundred and twenty-six, chapter forty, and enti-
tled, an act to incorporate the Methodist Preach-
ers Aid Society of Baltimore, Samuel Harden
and other persons, were created a body politic
and corporate, for the laudable purpose of afford-