JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 139

Company be, and it is hereby authorized and em- powered to enter into a contract or contracts with the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company, the Northern Central Railway Company and the Union Railroad Company of Baltimore or any of them for the use of the tracks of said company, or any of them, within the limits of the City of Baltimore and to tide-water at Canton, and that any contract or con- tracts heretofore made for that purpose, shall have the same effect as though the same had been made after this act of Assembly had gone into effect.	Authorized and empow- ered.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Western Maryland Railroad Company, be and it is hereby authorized to be the lessee of the line of rail- road connecting the railroad of said company with the village of Emmittsburg in Frederick county.	Lessee.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Western Maryland Railroad Company, be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire, hold and dis- pose of any real or leasehold property and estate in the City of Baltimore, which the president and di- rectors of said company or a majority of them, shall deem necessary for depots, engine houses, or other purposes appropriate to its business, whether such property be adjacent to the railroad of said company or separated from it, and capable of being used only by means of the tracks of some of the other railroad companies mentioned in the first section of this act.	To acquire.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That for the acquisition of such property or the use and occupation of the same, the said Western Maryland Railroad Company shall possess all the powers for condemnation as well as negotiation, provided by the act of the General Assembly of Maryland passed at January session eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter seventy- one, and entitled "An act to amend the act incorpo- rating the Western Maryland Railroad Company, and to give additional powers to said company. "	Powers.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That none of the provi- sions of this act shall be of any effect or force what- ever, unless said company shall first consent and agree that all of the property of said company shall	Any effect.