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JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR
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CHAPTER 261.
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AN ACT to repeal the act passed at the January
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session, eighteen hundred and sixty, chapter two
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hundred and fifty, entitled "An act to incorporate
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the Easton Passenger and Freight Railway Com-
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pany," as amended by chapter three hundred and
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seventy-six, of the acts passed at the January ses-
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sion, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and to re-
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enact the same with amendments.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Maryland, 'That chapter two hundred and fifty of the
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Repealed and
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acts passed at the January session, eighteen hundred
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enacted.
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and sixty, and chapter three hundred and aeventy-
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six, of the acts passed at the January session, eigh-
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teen hundred and sixty-four be, and the same are
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hereby repealed, and the following enacted in lieu
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thereof :
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SEC. 2. And be, it enacted, That Reuben Tharp, E.
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L. F. Hardcastle, John W. Cheezum, Wm. Mason
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and Charles E. Shanahan and all or every other per-
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son or persons hereafter becoming members of this
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Body politic.
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company, in the manner hereinafter mentioned,
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their successors and assigns, shall be, and they are
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hereby created, and declared to be a body politic,
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by the name and style of the " Easton Passenger and
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Freight Railway Company," and by that name and
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style shall have perpetual succession, and be capable
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Powers.
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in law of purchasing, holding, improving and con-
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tracting for railroad iron, wood, ties and every and
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all materials required or deemed necessary to use
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and lay down their tracks of railway in the town of
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Easton, in Talbot county, and use cars for the ac-
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commodation of passengers, as well as cars for the
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transportation of freight, through any of the streets
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of said town, and extending from said town to Eas-
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ton Point, on the waters of Tred-Avon Creek, to
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Miles River bridge, or other points on the waters of
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Miles River, and to Dover bridge, or other con-
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venient points on the Choptank River, in the said
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county of Talbot, as may seem most advantageous,
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from time to time, for the interest of said company,
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