The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
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[CHAPTER 81
SLATE or MARYLAND VS. CHES4-
PEAkE AND OHIO CANAL.
Secretary of the Senate,

SLATE OF MARYLAND Us. CHES1-
PEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.
AN ACT
To protect the interest ofthe State of Maryland
in the Chesapeak and Ohio Canal Company
and for this purpose to authorize and direct
the Attorney-General of Mary land to take
such action on behalf of the said State as,
in his judgment, shall be proper, in any
slit now pending, or which may hereafter
be instituted, against the said Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company and also to in
stiute such other legal proceedings as in
his judgment, shall be proper, for the pro-
lection of the interest OF the State of Mary
land in said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Company, and for the like purpose to au-
thorize and direct the Comptroller Of the
Treasury to provide or execute, upon behalf
of the State of Maryland, such bonds OF
stipulations, in suits relating 10 said Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal Company, as shall
be required by the said Attorney General
in the premises.
Whereas, suit in equity has recently been
States for the Maryland District by a certain
Daniel X. Stewart against the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company and others, for the
purpose of having the management of the said
company placed in the Ii ands of receiver
and,
Whereas, the State of Maryland has large
pecuniary and other in the said company
which will be inuriously affected by the
granting of the relief sought by the COM
plainant in the said suit; therefore
Section |. Be it enacted by the General As
sembIy of Mary land, That the Attorney-Gen-
eraI of Maryland be and he is hereby author
lied and directed to take such action and do
all such things on behalf OF the State in the
suit now pending in the Circuit Court of the
United States for the Maryland District, in
equity, between Daniel K. Stewart, as com
plainant, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Company and others, a. defendants, aud in
any other proceedings which may be inst-
tuled or prosecuted against said Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company, as shall be proper
in bis judgment for the eifectual protection of
the the interest of the State of Maryland in
the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company,
and the said Attorney. General is further an-
thorized and directed to institute and take
any and all such other proceedings, in the Su-
yreme Court of the United States or elsewhere,
as may, in his judgment, be necessary and
proper for the protection of the interests of the
State of Mary land in said Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, that the
Comptroller the Treasury be aud he is hereby
directed at any and all times, upon the re-
quirement of the Attorney General of Mary
land, to execute any and all bonds and stipu-
lations, whatsoever, in the name and on be-
half of the State of Maryland, whether as prin-
cipal or surety, or by way of naturalization to
sureties, which the said Attorney General may
certify to him to be executed in or about any
proceedings whatsoever, whether at law or in
equity, now pending or herea lter to be insti-
tuted in any Court or Courts whatsoever,
touching the interest of the State in the Chesa.
peake and Ohio Canal Company, or touch ing
the property, tolls, revenues or management
of said company.
Sec. g. And be it further enacted, That the faith
of the State of Maryland be, and the same is
hereby, pledged 10 the full and perfect indem-
nifty of any surety or suretes, obligor or obi
gors, upon any and al bonds or stipulations
which shall be given in pursuance Of the pro-
visions Of this act.
Sec. a. And be it further enacted, That this
act shall take effect Immediately from and after
the date of its passage
HERMAN STUMP,
President of the Senate.
HIRAM MCCULLOUGH,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Approved March 10, 1880.
VIM. T. HAMILTON,
Governor of Maryland.
We hereby certify, that the aforegoing is cor
rect copy of an act of the General Assembly
OF Maryland, passed at the January session,
1880.
EUGENE HIGGINS,
Secretary of the Senate.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House Of Delegates.