THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 665

CHAPTER 364. AN ACT to incorporate the Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad Company.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That George W. Hughes, Dr. R. S. Stewart, D. R. Magruder, B. Alien Welch, Hen- ry M. Warfield, Henry E. Morton, Augustas Hall, James Cheston, jr., John Parran, Thomas S. Iglehart, James T. Briscoe, Joshua Linthicum, E. J,. Henkle, Thomas J. Hall, William Hawkins, Henry Owings, of Samuel, Henry Duvall, Isaac Solomon, George W. Nutwell, Dr. Wm. P. Dor- sey, Dr. Nicholas Knighton, C. S. Parron, Dr. Thomas Hammond, Joseph Norfolk, Joseph Blake, of Thos., Johns Hopkins, Galloway Cheston, A. C. Gibbs, Richard O. Crisp, Dr. Basil S. Dixon, Charles S. Somerville, be and they are hereby ap- pointed Commissioners, under the direction of any five of whom subscriptions may be received to the capital stock of the Baltimore and Drum Point 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 open-	Commission- ers.
ing the same as they may deem proper, and upon the first opening of the said books, they shall be kept open at least five successive days, from ten o'clock, A. M. to two o'clock, P. M., and if, at the expiration of that period, such a subscription to the capital stock of said Company as is neces- sary to its incorporation shall not have been ob- tained, 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 incor- poration of said Company shall have been sub- scribed ; if sooner subscribed, and if any of the said commissioners shall die, resign, or refuse to act, during the time for the continuance of the duties imposed on them by this Act, another or others may be appointed by the remaining com- missioners, or a majority of them.	Open books.