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Sec. 22. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act shall
be so construed as to authorize this corporation to issue any
note, device, scrip or other evidence of debt to be used as a
currency, and the Legislature hereby reserves to itself the
right to alter, repeal or annul this act at pleasure.
Maryland, to wit:

We hereby certify that the forgoing is a true copy of the
act, entitled "an Act to incorporate the Cumberland and
Pennsylvania Railroad Company," which passed the General
Assembly of Maryland, at December Session, 1849.

Given under our hands, at the City of Annapolis, on this
13th day of March, 1850.

GEORGE G BREWER,
Clerk House of Delegates, Md.
JOS. H. NICHOLSON,

Clerk Senate, Md.

An Act amendatory of the Act entitled, "An Act to incorporate
the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Rail Road Company,"
passed at the December Session, 1849. chapter 469.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted "by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That there be added to the list of commissioners named in the
first section of said original act, the four following named
persons, to wit: James M. Buchanan, Elijah M. Bartholow,
David Stewart and Charles R. Clark, of Baltimore city—and
that these four commissioners with the commissioners named
in said first section, be and there are hereby vested with all
and sinuglar, the rights, powers and authority given by said
act to the commissioners therein named, to be exercised by
them or any two of them, in the manner prescribed by said
act.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President and
Directors of said company shall be, and they are hereby in-
vested with full right and power to connect with any existing
railroad leading from the town of Cumberland at any point
west of Cumberland, and to construct a railroad from the
place of such connection to the Pennsylvania line, or to pur-
chase any such railroad, or any part thereof, and the lands,
franchises and appurtenances held for the purpose of the same,
with power to construct and build a connection from any rail-
road, or part of any railroad so purchased, from any point
thereof, west of Cumberland, the said President and Directors
may choose, to the Pennsylvania line.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in case said Presi-
dent and Directors shall purchase any existing railroad, or