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the directors of said company. That the assent of the legislature is hereby declared
to the provisions of the mortgage of the franchise and other property of the said
Maryland and Delaware Railroad Company, executed on the twenty-third day of
February, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to Enoch Louis Lowe, Frederick W.
Downer and Ashbel Green, trustees, and that the bonds to be issued by said com-
pany under said mortgage now made shall not bo used or hypothecated by said
company, except to the extent named in the proviso to this section, but shall be
paid to the contractor or contractors for actual construction as the road progresses
and not otherwise; provided, that the said company may use or hypothecate seventy-
five thousand dollars of said bonds and no more, for the redemption of an equal
amount of bonds now hypothecated, unless by the assent of the county and state
directors, said bonds when so redeemed to be held by said company subject to the
provisions of this section.

OXFORD. 1865, c. 201 amends sections 101, 104 and 107 as follows.
101. Every commissioner hereafter elected for the town of Oxford, shall, before he shall proceed to exe- cute his office, take an oath before one of the com- missioners then in office, or before some justice of the peace for Talbot county, that he will diligently and faithfully, according to the best of his judgment, perform the duties of commissioner of said town without favour, partiality or prejudice, and a certifi- cate of such qualification shall be filed and recorded among their proceedings.	1865, c 201. Commission- ers to take an oath
104. The said commissioners or a majority of them, shall have power to meet and adjourn from time to time as they shall think proper, and shall at their first meeting after an election for a board of commissioners, choose from their own body a presi- dent, who shall preside at all meetings of the com- missioners, vote on all questions before them, and remain in office until superseded by the appointment of a new president; after a new election of commis- sioners, they may also choose from their own body annually, a treasurer, and require him to give bond in such penalty as they may prescribe; they may also appoint from their own number, (or other per- sons, ) three judges of election, and a clerk, and administer to them the necessary oaths.	To choose president, treasurer, &c