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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That A. M. Alexander, J. H.
Wright, Thomas W. H. Mosely, A. DeGraff,
Greensbury W. Ridgely, Thomas C. Hambly,
James Stuart, Joseph P. Reznor, Charles J. B.
Mitchell, Robert Wright, James Davidson, Wil-
liam Hammond, James B. Steel and their associ-
ates be, and they are hereby created and made a
body politic and corporate, by the name, style and
title of the Queenstown and Harrington Railway
Company, and by such name, style and title shall
have perpetual succession, and be capable of suing
and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded,
in any court of law or equity in this State, and of
receiving, taking, holding and operating in its
said corporate name any real or personal property,
provided that the real estate held by said corpora-
tion shall only be such as is necessary and useful
in the construction and maintaining of their road,
with the use of the same as herein set forth. |
Incorporated
—power and
privileges, |
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corpo-
ration is hereby authorized and empowered to
survey and construct and maintain a railway, of
double or single track, from some point at or near
Queenstown, in the County of Queen Anne, to the
line between the States of Maryland and Delaware,
where most convenient and suitable to connect
with a road to Harrington, in the State of Dela-
ware, with power to construct any bridge or
bridges which may be necessary over any streams
on the route of the same, and the power to erect
and maintain a ferry from the Chesapeake termi-
nus of said road to the City of Annapolis, or some
other suitable point on the Western Shore of the
Chesapeake Bay. |
Authorized
to construct a
Railroad. |
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said corpora-
tion, by their agents, officers and employees for
the purpose of surveying the route of said road,
may enter upon and pass through any private pro-
perty without injury to said premises, and when |
Powers of the
Corporation. |
