THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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due quarterly on the currency debt of the State,
four hundred and twenty thousand dollars; and

the interest on public debt, falling due semi-an-
nually, and payable in London, including the cost
of exchange, remittance and commissions, two

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hundred and sixty thousand dollars; Provided
however, that all that portion of the interest on the
public debt, which at any time during the year end-
ing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred
and sixty, shall be due on that part of the said
debt, which may constitute the sinking fund of
the State, shall be applied by the Treasurer, to
the purchase of stock or bonds of the State, for
the increase of the said fund; to the payment of
the interest falling due on the first day of July,
in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and
on the first day of January, in the year eighteen
hundred and sixty, on the bonds or certificates of
debt of the Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad
Company, issued in pursuance of chapter one
hundred and sixty-eight, of eighteen hundred and.
forty-one, and to the payment of so much of the
principal of said bonds or certificates of debt, an
is directed to be paid by the said act, seven thou-

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sand dollars; Provided however, that only so much
thereof shall be so applied as may be equal to the
nett profits of the said Annapolis and Elk Ridge
Railroad Company, and the profits which this
State shall or may have derived from the use of
the Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad, in con-
nection with the Washington Branch of the Bal-
timore and Ohio Railroad, and which profits shall
or may have been paid into the Treasury, as re-
quired by the aforesaid act of eighteen hundred
and forty-one, chapter one hundred and sixty-
eight; to the Secretary of the Senate, three hun-
dred dollars; to the Chief Clerk of the House of
Delegates, three hundred dollars; to the Keeper
of Records of the Court of Chancery, one thou-
sand dollars; to the purchase of stationery for the
Legislature, three thousand dollars; to the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, as per chapter
two hundred and sixty-six, of eighteen hundred
and fifty-three; twenty thousand dollars; to the
holder or holders of coupons or certificates of in-
terest in arrears, which were not funded under the
provisions of chapter two hundred and thirty-

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