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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

then elected shall immediately qualify, and shall serve untill
the first Monday in June, in the year 1901, and until their
successors shall qualify. If any one or more of said judges
shall die or refuse to Act as such, the remaining judge or
judges shall fill the vacancy; and at the time of holding the
first said election hereinbefore provided for, the said judges
shall receive also the ballot of each voter for or against this
charter; and the said judges shall certify the result of such
voting to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Allegany County;
and the said clerk shall record said return among the records
of his office, and shall by publication in some newspaper pub-
lished in said county make known the same; and if a majority
of the votes cast at said election shall be in favor of this
charter, then the said inhabitants of Town of Midland shall
be a body corporate, otherwise this Act shall be inoperative
and void.

Approved April 10, 1900.

CHAPTER 682.

AN ACT to incorporate the Ocean City Steel Pier Railway
and Amusement Company.

Ocean City
Steel Pier
Railway and
Amusement
Company.
Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That George J. Records, John F. Waggaman, William
Lee Carey, Henry J. Anderson, William J. Warrington, John
M. Carter, Jr., of Maryland; Louis F. Doyle, of New York;
Claud M. Johnson, of the District of Columbia, and Nathaniel
F. Wilds, of Delaware, and such other persons as may here-
after become associated with them in the manner herein pro-
vided, shall be and they are hereby incorporated and made a
body politic and corporate by the name of the Ocean City
Steel Pier Railway and Amusement Company, and by that
name shall have succession, and shall be able to sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, and to make and use a common
seal, and the same to alter and renew at pleasure, and by the
above name shall be capable in law of purchasing, holding,
possessing, transferring and selling, and conveying property,
real, personal and mixed, for the objects and purposes herein-
after mentioned.

Power to con-
struct and
operate a steel
pier, etc.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the company hereby incor-
porated shall have power to locate, establish, construct, equip,
operate and maintain in Ocean City, Worcester County, a
steel or iron, or partly steel or iron, and partly wooden pier,
projecting into the Atlantic Ocean from the shore, beginning