President and Directors of the Baltimore and Pikesville
Railroad Company of Baltimore, and re-enact a substitute
therefor.

Which was read the first time.
Also,

The bill entitled an Act to amend the charter of the Mary-
land Central Railroad Company, passed at the January ses-
sion 1867, chapter 121, so as to extend the time for the com-
mencement and completion of the same,

Reported it with the following amendment:

Strike out all after the word "bill," and insert the follow-
ing:

AN ACT

To amend the charter of the Maryland Central Railroad Com-
pany, passed January session, 1867, chapter one hundred
and twenty-one, so as to. extend the lime for the commence-
ment and completion of the same, and to appoint corporators
in the place of those who have died, resigned or refused to
act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section one and section seventeen, of the Act en-
titled tin Act to incorporate the Maryland Central Railroad
Company, passed at January session, eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, chapter one hundred and twenty-one, be, and
they are hereby revealed, amended and re-enacted., so as to
read respectively, as follows :

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Johns Hopkins, Wm. B. Norris, Horatio D. Whitridge,
William Sterling, Henry A. Silver, John H.Price, J. Craw-
ford Neilson, Herman Stump, Robert Lehr, William T.
Walters, Thomas Symington, E. Stanley Rodgers, John F.
McJilton, Stephenson Archer, Benjamin Silver, Thomas E.
Bond, M. D., Robert Gilmor, Jr., Jeremiah Yellott, James
Warden, Cheney Hoskins and James Silver, and their asso-
ciates, successors and assigns be, and they are hereby, created
and made a body corporate, by the name and style of the
Maryland Central Railroad Company, and by that name
shall have succession, and shall be capable in law to hold
and dispose of property, to sue and be sued, to plead and be
impleaded, answer and defend, be answered and defended in
any Court of law or equity, and in other places whatsoever,
to receive and make deeds and contracts, to make, have and
use a common seal, and the same to change, alter or renew
at pleasure, and to generally pass all such by-laws as may
be necessary to regulate its affairs, and do all such acts as
shall be necessary for the transaction of the business of the