EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

ion

subject to a fine of not, less than five dollars nor more than one

hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court trying the case,

said fine to be collected as other fines and forfeitures.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts,

public and local, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act be

and the same are hereby repealed, and that this Act shall take

affect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 592.

AN ACT to incorporate the Middletown and Cecilton Railroad

Company.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the name and style of this company shall be "The

The Middle-
town and Ce-
cilton Rail-

Middletown and Cecilton Railroad Company."

road Com-
pany.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the object and purpose of

this company is to provide improved communication for that

Object and
purposes of

part of Cecil County, State of Maryland, bordering on the

company.

Chesapeake bay and Sassafras river, and to provide direct com-

munication for the transfer of freight on this railroad, after a

point on the Delaware line near Warwick, Maryland, by the

way of Cecilton to Fredericktown, Maryland ; and to build and

operate such a railroad or railway extending by a direct line

from a point at or within one-half mile of the point

where the public road from Middletown, Delaware, to

Warwick, Maryland, crosses the Delaware State line to Cecil-

ton, in Cecil County, Maryland.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of this

Capital stock.

company shall be fifty thousand dollars, with the privilege of

increasing the same to one hundred thousand dollars, divided

into two thousand five hundred shares of twenty dollars each.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That William B. Davis, Samuel

Hurlock and E. S. Short, of Cecil County, Maryland; Edward

R. Cochran, Jr., of Wilmington, Delaware, and William R.

Polk, of Birmingham, State of Alabama, be and they are hereby

Commis-
sioners.

appointed commissioners, with the power and authority to open

books and receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said com-

pany according to the terms set forth in the next section of this

Act

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That said commissioners, or a

majority of them, may cause books to be opened for the purpose

To receive sub-

of receiving subscriptions to the capital stock of said company

scriptions.