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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

one hundred and fifty-seven, and the said Com-
missioners are hereby empowered to adjust the er-
rors in the aforesaid assessment.

In force.

Sec, 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4, 1870.

CHAPTER, 160.

AN ACT to incorporate the New York and
George's Creek Coal Company.

Name and
style.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Alexander Shaw, Alonzo
Chamberlin and Thomas H. Paul, and such other
persons as may be associated with them in manner
hereinafter provided, shall be and are hereby in-
corporated and made a body politic, by the name
and style of the New York and George's Creek
Coal Company, and by that name shall have suc-
cession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded, in any court of law and equity,
and may have and use a common seal, and the
same alter and renew at pleasure, and the said

Rights and
privileges.

Company shall have all the privileges and rights
necessary for carrying on the mining of coal and
ores, and the manufacture of iron and fire brick
and other products of their mines and lands, and
for transporting to market the produce of their
mines, lands and manufactories, and also to lease
or purchase lands and mines, and build furnaces,
with their appurtenances, and to hold all such
property, personal, real and mixed, as they may
acquire, for the purpose aforesaid, not to exceed
six thousand acres of land; and the said Company

Lease and
purchase.

shall also have power to lease, purchase or make
and equip and maintain any railroads, tram roads
and wharves within the limits of Allegany County,
and also for the purposes above mentioned, shall
have power to make such by-laws, rules and regu-
lations as may be necessary; provided, they be not
repugnant to any laws of this State or of the
United States.