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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ninety-eight, and acquired under and by virtue thereof, to-
gether with the enlarged and additional rights, privileges and
franchises by this Act hereinafter conferred.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That Sections 3, 5, 9, 10, 11 and
12 of said Chapter five hundred and fourteen of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, passed in the year 1898, and
entitled an "Act to incorporate the Frederick, Thurmont and
Northern Railway Company," be and the same are hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as
follows:

Capital stock.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said
company shall not be more than one million dollars, to be di-
vided into shares of fifty dollars each; and the directors of said
company may issue, from time to time, in the name of said
company, mortgage bonds to an amount sufficient, in connec-
tion with such sums as may be derived from the amount of its
stock issued, to complete and fully equip its railroad and
branches and secure the payment of such bonds by mortgage
of all, or any part, of the property, rights, franchises, tolls and
revenues of said company.

Power to con
struct, equip
and operate
railroad.
Route.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said company shall
have power to construct, equip and operate a railroad impelled
by electricity, steam or other power, as the directors may de-
termine, from some point in Frederick City, in Frederick
County, to some point at or near the boundary line between
the State of Maryland and the State of Pennsylvania, and run
through or near the towns of Thurmont and Emmittsburg, in
said Frederick County, and to extend from said Frederick
City southwardly through Frederick and Montgomery Coun-
ties to the boundary line of the District of Columbia, or to
such point in Montgomery County as may, by said directors,
be deemed most expedient to connect with some railroad en-
tering said District of Columbia, with full power to construct,
equip and operate, in like manner, a branch railroad from
said Frederick City eastwardly, through Frederick, Carroll
and Baltimore Counties, to a point at or near Pikesville, in
Baltimore County, to haul passengers, parcels and freight
over said railroad and branches, and charge therefor as the
board of directors of said railway company may, from time to
time, determine.

Shall not
extend its line,
etc. without
consent of
County Com-
missioners,
etc.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That said railway company shall
not extend its line or construct its road upon any public road
or highway in any of the counties aforesaid without the con-
sent and approval of the Board of County Commissioners for
such county being first had and obtained; nor shall it extend