ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 53

CHAPTER 48.

AN ACT entitled an Act to authorize the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, to endorse the
Mortgage Bonds of the Western Maryland Rail
Road Company, to the amount of Fourteen hun-
dred thousand dollars, as provided by an ordi-
nance of the said Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, entitled " An Ordinance to authorize
the endorsement or guarantee by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, of the Mortgage
Bonds of the Western Maryland Rail Road
Company, and to provide a Sinking Fund in
connection therewith," approved January twen-
ty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy ;

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to endorse or guarantee the Mortgage Bonds of the Western Maryland Railroad Compa- ny, to the amount of Fourteen hundred thousand dollars, and that the ordinance of the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, approved on the twenty-sixth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy, and entitled "An Ordinance to au- thorize the endorsement or guarantee by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore of the Mortgage Bonds of the Western Maryland Rail Road Com- pany, and to provide a Sinking Fund in connec- tion therewith," he and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed.

Endorse mort- gage bonds W. Maryland rail- road.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved February 19, 1870.

In force.