EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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and shall have and enjoy and may exercise all the powers,

rights, privileges, acts, matters and things incident and neces-

sary to the purposes of said corporation as created by this Act.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the company hereby in-

corporated, is incorporated for the purpose of building a rail-

To build a

railroad.

road by (as far as practicable) a direct route from Baltimore

to the line dividing Maryland and Virginia on the east side

of the Chesapeake Bay, and to that end shall have power to

make, contract and maintain a railroad with double or single

tracks and sidings, as they may deem expedient for the trans-

portation of passengers and freight from some point in Bal-

timore City, thence in a southern direction through Baltimore

and Anne Arundel Counties, to a point at or near Annapolis,

thence continuing in a southern direction through Anne Arun-

del and Calvert Counties to the southern extremity of Calvert

County, at or near Drum Point, or before or after reaching

Drum Point, by suitable bridge across the Patuxent river to

St. Mary's County, and through St. Mary's County to some

point on the Chesapeake Bay, or a tributary thereof, at or near

Route.

Point Lookout, and by steamship or steamboat line to the

most accessible point, yet to be determined, in one of the

counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That said company be and it

is hereby authorized in order to construct said railroad on such

Authority

land or property of any individual or corporation, or on such

granted com-
pany.

private right of any corporation or individual as it may deem

necessary to occupy, in order to construct said railroad between

the points authorized by this Act, and when the consent of the

owners of such ground or property cannot, from any cause,

be obtained, the said corporation may obtain the same by con-

demnation, in the manner as is provided in Article 23 of the

Code of Public General Laws of the State of Maryland, and all

the supplements and amendments thereto, and the said corpora-

tion shall have the power, subject to the approval of the

County Commissioners and of the municipal authorities of any

city or town along its route, as the case may be, to use and oc-

cupy for the purpose of its railroad, any public road in said

county, or any street, alley or lane in any of said cities or

towns.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That said railroad company shall

have power to construct and operate branch roads, to lease,

Branch roads.

buy and improve lands along the lines of said railroad, to

wharves, etc.

lease, buy and build wharves, houses and shops for corporate

purposes, to charter, build, purchase and hold steamships,