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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said voters shall vote against incorporation, then this Act

shall be in abeyance for a period of one year, or until the first

Monday in May, 1905, when the qualified voters of the said

town may again assemble and vote as herein provided ; and if

at the second election a majority of the qualified voters of said

town shall vote for incorporation, then the provisions of this

Act shall take effect, and the election hereunder shall be valid ;

but if a majority of said voters shall vote against incorporation,

then this Act shall be held utterly null and void. If at any such

Result of

election the majority of the qualified voters of said town shall

election.

vote for incorporation, the said judges of election shall at once

declare who has been elected Mayor and Common Councilmen,

and issue to them certificates to that effect, which shall be re-

corded amongst the proceedings of the town.

SEC. 30. And be it enacted, That the provisions of this Act

shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.

CHAPTER 257.

AN ACT to incorporate the Baltimore and Southwestern Rail-

road Company.

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

Baltimore and
Southwestern

land, That John P. Moore, of Worcester County, Robert B.

Railroad
Company.

Dixon, of Talbot County, Murray Vandiver, of Harford

County, Francis E. Waters, of Baltimore City, Arthur P. Gor-

man, Jr., of Howard County, and Samuel K. Dennis, of Wor-

cester County, and all of the State of Maryland, and Frank

Smith, of the State of Pennsylvania, and their successors' in

office, are hereby created a body corporate under the name of

the Baltimore and Southwestern Railroad Company, and the

said incorporators are hereby constituted and appointed the

directors of said company and they shall have power at any

time after the passage of this Act to organize by the election

of a president and such other officers as may in their judgment

be to them necessary for the proper management of the affairs

of said company.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said corporation, under the

Rights of com-
pany.

above name, shall be capable in law of purchasing, holding,

selling and conveying property, real, personal and mixed, as far

as shall be necessary for the purpose hereinafter mentioned,

and shall have perpetual succession, and by such corporate

name may sue and be sued, and to make and have and use a

common seal, and the same alter and renew at their pleasure,