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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 165.
AN ACT to authorize the Queen Anne's Railroad Company
of Maryland aad Delaware to change its corporate name, and
granting certain additional powers and franchises to said
Company.

Name changed
Balto, and
Delaware
Breakwater
Railroad Co.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Queen Anne's Railroad Company, a body cor-
porate, heretofore incorporated under the Laws of the State
of Maryland and Delaware, is hereby granted the power to
change the corporate name of such body corporate to the Bal-
timore and Delaware Breakwater Railroad Company, when
adopted by the board of directors of said body corporate at
any lawful meeting, provided a copy of the resolution of the
board of directors authorizing such change or adoption of
name, certified by the president and secretary of said company,
under the corporate seal of the company, shall be filed and
recorded in the office of the Secretary of State, and among the
land records of the County of Sussex, in the State of Delaware,
according to the Act of the General Assembly of the State of
Delaware relating thereto, passed April nine, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-seven. And all rights, powers and privileges
heretofore granted to said body corporate under the Laws of
Maryland, are hereby assured and confirmed to said corpora-
tion by and under such other name and title as it may lawfully
assume and adopt hereunder.

May issue
mortgage
bonds.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said body corporate, by
its present corporate name or by such other name as may be
lawfully assumed and adopted, is hereby authorized to issue
mortgage bonds in amount not exceeding thirty thousand
dollars per mile for each mile of its main line of railway and
branches within this State, and to secure the same by mort-
gage or deed of trust upon all its property and franchises,
notwithstanding any limitation upon its power to issue mort-
gage bonds or other securities of indebtedness heretofore
existing in the charter of said company or by law, or by the
terms of any Acts of the General Assembly heretofore passed
with relation to the same.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1900.