EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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of this section, except it shall be lawful to take fish with dip

net during the period from February 15 to April 15 in each

and every year, the mesh of the dip net to be of iy2 inches

square.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 618.

AN ACT to incorporate the Queen Anne's Electric Power,

Light and Transportation Company.

SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That John E. George, W. Irving Walker, Richard D.

Hynson, James E. Kirwan, Samuel R. Hurlock, Harry E.

Karr, J. Frank Harper and their associates and successors be

and they are hereby created, constituted and declared to be a

body politic and corporate under the name and style of the

Queen Anne's Electric Power, Light and Transportation Com-

Queen Anne's

pany, and under that name and style shall have perpetual suc-

Electric Pow-

cession, and may sue and be sued, defend and be defended at

er, I,ight and
Transporta-

law or in equity, to have and to use a common or corporate

tion Com-
pany.

seal, and to alter or remove the same at pleasure, and otherwise

in all things to do, execute and perform whatever any cor-

poration and body politic or individual may, can or might law-

fully do, execute and perform within the scope and for the

object and purpose of the said corporation as follows, namely:

To construct and lay down and operate a railway, with the ne-

cessary and proper switches, turnouts and any and all mechani-

Rights of cor-

cal contrivances and devices and appliances suitable to operate

poration.

either a single or double track railway, and to run thereon cars

and carriages, drawn or propelled by steam, electricity or other

motive power, in Queen Anne's County, and in the territory

adjacent thereto, in the State of Maryland, and said corporation

shall have the power to charge such reasonable rates for trans-

portation of passengers and freight on said railway and any of

the branches or laterals thereof as the board of directors may

from time to time determinej and said corporation shall also

have the power and right to acquire, hold, manage and dispose

of any warehouses, granaries, elevators, wharves, steam or

sail boats or barges, and any real or personal property essential,

necessary or relevant to the uses and purposes aforesaid, and

also to acquire any real estate adjacent to such line of railway

or any lateral or branch thereof, and to develop and sell said