AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BALTIMORE AND
POTOMAC RAILROAD COMPANY.

Passed May 6th, 1853.

COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Thomas G. Pratt, John D. Sellman, Charles R. Stewart,
Rezin Hammond, George Wells, Owen Disney, John T.
Hodges, James S. Owens, Thomas F. Bowie, George Mor-
ton, William K. Barker, William P. Brooke, Dr. Charles
Duvall, W. W. W. Bowie, Charles C. Hill, Thomas I. Mar-
shall, Nicholas H. Shipley, P. W. Grain, William B. Stone,
John Mathews, John W. Jenkins, Francis Thompson, Uzial
Nalley, Walter Mitchell, Edward Perry, George Thomas,
Richard H. Miles, Edward I. Plowdon, John C. Bruce, John
S. Gittings, James Carroll, Edward Reynolds, Henry Gar-
rett, Francis Neale, Zenas Barnum, and William Baker, be,
and are hereby appointed commissioners, under the sanction
of any five of whom subscriptions may be received to the capi-
tal stock of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company,
hereby incorporated, and they or any five of them may cause
books to be opened at such times and places as any five of
them may direct, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions to
the capital stock of said company, after having given such
notice of the times and places of opening the same as they
may deem proper, and upon the first opening of the said books,
they shall be kept open for at least five successive days, from
10 o'clock A. M. to 2 o'clock P. M., and if at the expiration
of that period such a subscription to the capital stock of the
said company as is necessary to its incorporation shall not
have been obtained, the said commissioners, or any five of
them, may cause the said books to be opened from time to
time, after the expiration of the said five days, within the
space of five years thereafter, or until the amount of stock
necessary to the incorporation of said company shall have
been subscribed; and if any of the said commissioners shall
die, resign, or refuse to act during the time for the continu-
ance of the duties imposed on them by this act, another or
others may be appointed by the remaining Commissioners, or
a majority of them.