476 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

any suit for damages on account of said injury,
brought by the mayor and city council of Baltimore.

In force from March 8, 1862.

WOOD.

1862, c. 173 repeals sections 917 and 949 and substitutes the following:

1862, c. 173. Wood huck- sters to be licensed.

947. The clerk of the court of common pleas may issue licenses to retail and huckster wood, on any of the wharves in the city of Baltimore, upon the pay- ment of one hundred dollars, for the use of the state.

Penalty for re- tailing without license.

949. No person shall retail or huckster wood on any wharf in the city of Baltimore, under a common trader's license, or without having first obtained a license for said purpose, as provided in the preced- ing section; and any person so offending shall be fined one hundred dollars, one-half for the use of the state, and the other half for the use of the person who shall prosecute for the same. In force from April 30, 1862.

WESTERN MARYLAND RAIL ROAD COMPANY.

1864, c. 298 authorizes the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, to endorse or
guarantee the payment of the principal and interest upon the second mortgage
bonds of the Western Maryland Rail Road Company, to an amount not exceeding
la the aggregate the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, in such manner and
form as they, the said Mayor and City Council may deem best; and declares valid
any ordinance heretofore passed by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, for
such purpose; and provides that the said Mayor and City Council may at any
time hereafter, exercise the remainder of their authority, so as to endorse or
guarantee such second mortgage bonds as they may deem proper.

1865, 177 enacts that whereas by a compact between the city of Baltimore and the
Western Maryland Railroad Company, the said city, in consideration of its loan to
the said company, became entitled to a permanent representation of two members
of the board of directors of the said company, but the mode in which the said direc-
tors are to be appointed remains to be provided for by an amendment of the charter
of the said company, that therefore the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, shall
in the month of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and annually thereafter,
nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of a convention of the two
branches of the City Council, appoint two of the five members of the board of direc-
tors of the said company, and that the charter of the said company is hereby altered
and amended conformably to the change hereby made in the same. That should the