JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

wise in all things to do, execute and perform whatever any
corporation and body politic or individual may, can or might
lawfully do, execute and perform within the scope and for the
object and purposes of the said corporation as follows, namely:

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To construct and lay down and operate a railway with the
necessary and proper switches, turn-outs, and any and all
mechanical contrivances and devices and appliances suitable
to operate an electric railway, and to run thereon cars and
carriages for the carrying of passengers and freight, drawn or
propelled by electricity or any other motor power, steam
excepted, beginning at a point on the Delaware line at or near
the Telegraph road; thence by Calvert, or as near as con-
venient thereto; thence to the Susquehanna river, with such
laterals or branches within said County of Cecil as said cor-
poration may deem advantageous to acquire, hold or manage,
and said company is hereby authorized to change said route
or any portion thereof between its two termini, if it should
find the same to be practicable or necessary; to hold, manage

Power to con-
struct and
operate rail-
way, etc.

or dispose of any personal or real property essential or rele-
vant to the uses aforesaid, and also to acquire title adjacent,
to such line of railway, or any lateral or branch thereof, and
to develop, improve, hold and sell, and they shall also have

May deal in
real and per-
sonal property

power to manufacture and sell and furnish such quantities of
electric light and electric power as may be required or desired
at any point in said county, and to contract for and furnish ,
electric lights for lighting the streets, wards, public or private
buildings in said county, and any city or town therein, and
for motive power and other purposes, and said corporation is
hereby authorized and empowered to lay, purchase and con-
struct or build lines and conductors and conduits under, along
or upon or over the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, roads or
ways whatsoever in said county, or in any city or town along
said route ; the consent of the County Commissioners for Cecil
County first having been obtained, and over and along any
private property, the consent of the owners thereof being
obtained.

Power to
manufacture
and sell
electric power,
etc.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the interest
and affairs of the said corporation shall be controlled and
managed by the persons particularly mentioned in the first
section of this Act, or such of them as shall accept such duty
or office as the board of directors of the said company for and
during the first year after the passage of this Act, and until
their successors as such board shall have been duly elected
and qualified pursuant to the by-laws and regulations which
shall be established by such board, and the said interest and

Management

of said corpora-
tion.