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Passed Dec.
13, 1861.
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AN ACT authorizing the Court of Appeals to hear
and determine, at the present term thereof, the
Appeal of the State of Maryland from an Order
lately passed by the Circuit Court of Baltimore
City, in the cause therein on the information of
the State of Maryland against the Northern Cen-
tral Railway Company and others.
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Court of Ap-
peals required
to hear appeal:
when, and for
what purpose.
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SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Court of Appeals be and
the same is hereby authorized and requested, at the
earliest convenient day during the sittings of the
present term of said Court, to entertain the Appeal
of the State of Maryland from an Order of the Cir-
cuit Court for Baltimore City, passed on the twenty-
ninth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-
one, in a cause in said Court on the informa-
tion of the State of Maryland against the North-
ern Central Railway Company and others; and
to hear the same appeal on the transcript of the
proceedings in said cause, now filed in the office
of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, and to de-
termine thereupon all such questions as may be
fairly presented by the said transcript, touching
the construction and operation of the mortgage
from the said Company to the said State, and the
equity of the State to be relieved by the issuing an
injunction and appointing a receiver, as prayed ;
and the right of the said Company to effects or dis-
counts, as claimed in said cause, to the end that
this General Assembly may be enabled to devise
such measures, if any, as may be required to do
right as between the State and the said Company.
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