EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 210.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Union Railroad Com-

pany of Baltimore, and thereby to fix the number of its

directors, provide for their election, and the election of the

president of the company.

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

land, That if this Act of Assembly be accepted by the stock-

Amending
charter of the

holders of the Union Railroad Company of Baltimore, a cor-

Union Rail-
road Com-

poration duly created and existing under the Act of the Gen-

pany.

eral Assembly of Maryland of 1866, Chapter 119, and the

several Acts of Assembly amendatory thereto before the fif-

teenth clay of May, A. D. 1904, then, and in that event, and not

otherwise, all of the provisions of this Act of Assembly

shall become operative and effective, and if the said Act shall

be so accepted by the said stockholders of said company, then

and in that event, from and after the first election of directors

of the said railroad company, hereinafter provided for, the

number of said directors shall be seven, all of whom shall be

annually elected by the stockholders of said company at a

Stockholders

meeting to be held for the purpose in the City of Baltimore,

increased to

seven.

at 12 o'clock noon on the first Monday of June in each and

every year, and shall serve until their successors are elected and

qualified ; the first election of directors shall be held on the

first Monday of June, 1904, at which time seven persons shall

be elected as directors, and the term of office of the directors

so elected shall begin immediately upon their election and ac-

ceptance of the position to which they shall be elected ; the

president of the said railroad company shall be annually elected

by said directors, and from among their own number, as soon

after their election as shall be practicable, and shall hold his

office until the election and qualification of his successor; and

Election.

the directors elected on the first Monday in June, A. D. 1904,

shall, immediately upon their election and acceptance of the

position to which they shall have been elected, elect a presi-

dent of said company; any vacancy which may occur in the

office of president or among the directors of said company

during the term for which they shall have been respectively

elected, shall be filled by the directors of the company; the

president and directors of the said railroad company for

whose election provision is made by this Act of Assembly,

are hereby clothed with all the powers and shall discharge

Clothing the

all the duties now vested in or imposed upon the president and

directorate
with duties

directors of the said railroad company by the now existing

and powers.

provisions of the charter of the said railroad company, as the