The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
[CHAPTER 1921.
ELKTON AND MLDDLETOWN RAIL-
ROAD COMPANY.

ELhTON AND MIDDLETOWN RAIL-
ROAD COMPANY.
AN ACT
To transfer the sum of money appropriated by
chapter three hundred and eghty-three,
section one, acts of General Assembly Of
eighteen hundred and seventy, to the Elk
ton and Masseys Railroad Company, from
said company to the Elkton and Middle
town Railroad Company of Cecil county.
SECTION l. Be il enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the sum of fifty
eight thousand dollars, appropriated by chap
ter three hundred and eighty three, section
one acts of General Assembly of eighteen
hundred and seventy, to the Elkton and Mas
sey's Railroad Company, be, and the same are
hereby, transferred to the Elkton and Middle
town Railroad Company of Cecil county, in
corporated under the general railroad laws,
passed by the General Assembly at its session in
eighteen hundred and seventy; and as soon as il
shall appear 10 the Governor, by the affidavit
of the President of said Elkton and Middle
town Railroad Company of Cecil county, that
bona tide subscription to the capital stock Of
said company, equal to the subscription on
the part of the State by this act, authorized
and directed, has been actually made the
Treasurer of this State shall be, and is hereby,
authorized and directed in the name and on
behalf of this State, TO subscribe for so many
shares of the capital stock of said company,
as shall amount TO the sum applied by this
act TO the said company; and the Treasurer
shall, out of any unapproprated money in
the Treasury, pay the instalment on each
share of the capital stock of said campany,
for which he may subscribe as aforesaid on
the warrant of the Comptroller; which latter
officer is hereby directed to issue, as said in
stalments may be called for, agreeble to the
provisions of the act of Assembly passed in
eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter four
hundred and seventy-si entitled an act to
provide for the creation and regulation of in
corporated companies in the State of Mary
land, and under which the said Elkton and
Middletown Railroad of Cecil county is incor-
porated; provided, that the Treasurer shall
not at any time, pay upon the States subscrip-
ton to the capital stock of said company,
greater amount than shall have been actually
paid by other subscribers to the capital stock
of said company.
Section 2. And be it enacted, That the State
shall be entitled to two directors in said road;
the said State directors to be appointed in the
same manner as the directors in all other
works of internal improvements are appointed
where the State has the legal power TO appoint
directors.
Section 3. And be it enacted, That all acts
or parts of acts inconsistent with this act be,
and the same are hereby, repealed
Section A. And be il enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its pas
sage.
HIRAM MCCULLOUGH,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
HERMAN STUMP,
President of the Senate,
Approved April IA, 1880.
VIM. 7. HAMILTON,
Governor of Maryland.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is a cor
rect copy of an act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed at the January ses-
sion, 1880.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
EUGENE HIGGINS,
Secretary of the Senate.