WM. PINKNEY WHYTE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 538
SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 1, 1872.
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CHAPTER 336.
AN ACT to incorporate the Maryland and Dela-
ware Ship Canal Company.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Horace B. Tibbetts, George Vickers, C. Bainbridge Smith, Thales A. Linthicum,
James T. Earle, Philip W. Downs, E. L. F. Hard-
castle, Levin Woolford, John W. Davis, Julian J.
Alexander, James T. Briscoe, and their associates
and successors, and all other persons who may be
stockholders, as hereinafter provided, are hereby
'constituted and made a body corporate, by the name
of the Maryland and Delaware Ship Canal Company,
for the purpose of cutting and making a Ship Canal,
the object of which shall be to connect the waters of
the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, with all the
works, locks, offices and appurtenances that may be
necessary. The said canal shall start from or com-
mence at some convenient point on the Chesapeake
Bay, or on some of the rivers, estuaries, creeks, or
arms of the same, or emptying into the same, but
not above Sassafras River, and run to the State line
of Delaware and Maryland; and by the aforesaid
corporate name the said Horace B. Tibbetts, George
Vickers, C. Bainbridge Smith, Thales A. Linthicum,
James T. Earle, Philip W. Downs, E. L. E. Hard-
castle, Levin Woolford, John W. Davis, Julian J.
Alexander, and James T. Briscoe, their associates
and successors, and all other persons who may be
stockholders, as hereinafter provided, shall be and
they are hereby made capable in law of purchasing,
holding, leasing, selling, conveying estates, real,
personal and mixed, so far as shall be necessary and
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