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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Failure to re-
pair. Penalty.

offence, and for each and every day any such ditch
or drain shall be suffered to remain out of repair
and injurious to such road, shall be liable to be
sued in an action of debt before a Justice of the
Peace in the name of said Commissioners, in which
said action the amount recoverable shall not be
less than five nor more than fifty dollars, cither
party having the right of appeal to the Circuit
Court, as in other cases of small debts, and the
sums recovered in any such action to be applied in
the same manner as hereinbefore provided.

In force.

Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from and after the date of its passage.

Approved April 4, 1870.

CHAPTER 193.

AN ACT to Incorporate the Walnut Level Coal
and Iron Company of Maryland,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Albert C. Greene, William
Ward, William Borden, Curtin M. Graham and

Incorporation

John M, Standish, and such other persons as may
be associated with them in manner hereinafter pro-
vided, shall be and are hereby incorporated, and
made a body politic, by the name and style of the

Name and
style.

Walnut Level Coal and Iron Company, and by
that name shall have succession, 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

Powers.

common seal, and the same alter and renew at
pleasure, and the said 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

Hold lands.

mines and lands, and for transporting to market
the produce of their mines, lands and manfactories,
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