1032

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Princess Anne
and Deal's
Island Light,
Power and
Railway Co.
Incorporated.

SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Roger Woolford, Hampden P. Dashiell, Oliver T.
Beauchamp, William F. Langford, S. Frank Dashiells, James
L. Bennett, J. Millard Morgan, Benjamin F. Sweeten and
Bennett P. Miles and their associates and successors be and
they are hereby created, constituted and declared to be a
body corporate and politic under the name and style of the
Princess Anne and Deal's Island Light, Power and Railway
Company, and by that name shall have perpetual succession.

Objects aud
purposes.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation under
the above name and style shall be capable in law to sue and
be sued, to plead and to be impleaded, and to complain and
defend at law or in equity, to have and use a common and
corporate seal, and to alter and renew the same at pleasure,
and otherwise in all things to do, execute and perform what-
ever any corporation and body politic, or individual may, can
or might lawfully do, execute and perform within the scope
and for the objects and purposes of said corporation.

Authority to
construct,
equip and
operate a rail-
way.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That said corporation shall have
power to make, construct, lay down, equip and operate and
maintain a railway for the transportation of passengers and
freight, with double or single tracks with necessary and
proper switches, turnouts, side tracks, offices and depots, and
any and all mechanical contrivances, devices and appliances
suitable to operate a railway and to run thereon cars and car-

Steam, electric
or other motor

power.

i riages drawn or propelled by steam, electric or other motor
power in Somerset County, in the State of Maryland, within
the town of Princess Anne, and from said town through apart
of Tangier District to Law's Thoroughfare, with the further
power and privilege of extending the same to and through
Deals Island, if the said corporation shall deem it advisable
and expedient, and also the further power and authority to
run such laterals or branches within said county as the board
of County Commissioners may permit, not exceeding fifteen
miles from the line of said railroad; and said corporation shall
have the power to charge such reasonable rates for such trans-
portation of passengers and freight on said railway and any
of the branches or laterals thereof as the board of directors

Power to
acquire and
dispose of real
and personal

property.

may from time to time determine; and said corporation shall
also have the power and right to acquire, hold, manage and
dispose of any real or personal property essential, necessary
or revalent to the uses and purposes aforesaid, and also to
acquire any real estate, adjacent to such line of railway,
or any lateral or branch thereof, and to develop and sell said