JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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by any sale made thereof by the tenant, or by any

administrator of a deceased tenant, or by the assign-

ment of the tenant in insolvency or by the process

of law issued against the tenant; provided, that at

Proviso.

the time of the said renting, the contract, under and

by which the said advances are to be made, shall be

reduced to writing, duly attested and executed by

the said landlord and tenant.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the provisions of
this act shall only apply to the Counties of St. Mary's,

Only apply.

Prince George's, Charles and Calvert.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

In force

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1876. .

CHAPTER 385.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Attorney

General of the State of Maryland to institute pro-

ceedings to forfeit the charter of the Gwynn's

Falls Bridge Company of the Washington Road.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to the General

Assembly by the memorials of many citizens of the

Preamble.

State, that the charter or franchises of the Gwynn's

Falls Bridge Company of the Washington Road,

incorporated by Act of Assembly, eighteen hundred

and sixty-seven, chapter two hundred and sixteen,

hath been forfeited by unjust discrimination in their

toll-rates, and by other wrongs inflicted upon the

community by said company; and that said bridge

should be free for public travel, by the terms of its

charter, because of the accumulation of the sinking

fund therein provided for; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the Attorney General of the State

of Maryland be, and he is hereby authorized, and