ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 517
CHAPTER 304.
AN ACT to repeal Sections one and two of an
Act passed at January Session, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-eight, Chapter two hundred and
sixty-six, entitled "A supplement to the Act
passed at the January Session, eighteen hundred
and sixty-four, Chapter one hundred and sixteen,
entitled an Act to revive and extend an Act to
incorporate the Wicomico and Pocomoke Rail-
road Company, with amendment passed at De-
cember Session, eighteen hundred and forty-
seven, and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments and additions.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That sections one and two of an Act
passed at January Session, eighteen hundred and
sixty-eight, Chapter two hundred and sixty-six,
entitled "A supplement to the Act passed at the
January Session, eighteen hundred and sixty-four,
Chapter one hundred and sixteen, entitled an Act
to revive and extend an Act to incorporate the
Wicomico and Pocomoke Railroad Company, with
amendment passed at December Session, eighteen
hundred and forty-seven, be and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:
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Repealed and
re-enacted.
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Sec. 1. Be it enacted, That the President and
Directors of the Wicomico and Pocomoke Railroad
Company, or a majority of them, be and they are
hereby authorized and empowered to construct any
lateral branches from the said Railroad in either
Worcester or Wicomico Counties, or to extend the
main stem of the same to any point or points in
said Wicomico County deemed by them expedient,
and may have the power to add to the main stem
of their said Railroad an extension, commencing
at its present terminus at Berlin, in Worcester
County, and ending at any point on the Bay
shore, or beach of the Atlantic Ocean, within the
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Construct lat-
eral branches.
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said county of Worcester, which to them may seem
fit, and to construct wharves, piers, and any other
work or structure in their judgment necessary to
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Wharves and
Piers.
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