EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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purposes aforesaid, so, however, as not to prevent the free
and convenient travel over such public road, street or high-
way by any citizen ; and provided, further, that the said cor-
poration shall keep the roads, streets and highways occupied
by them in good order between their tracks and for two feet
on each side thereof; and said corporation is further author-
ized and empowered to acquire such rights of way or the
fee of lands as it may find needful or advantageous to the
construction and operation of such railway line or lines by
purchase, gift or grant, and for the purpose of obtaining rights
of way, which may be wanted for the construction of such
railway line or any branch or lateral thereof; when said cor-

poration cannot agree with the owner or owners thereof, or

when the owner or owners are under legal disability, or out
of the county where the land lies, said corporation may pro-
ceed to condemn and acquire the use thereof in the manner
provided in Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland and the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land amendatory thereof, or in accordance with the provisions
of such Acts of said General Assembly as may be hereafter
passed, providing for the condemnation of private property
for the use of railroads or other corporations ; provided, that in
all cases where highways, roads, streets or other public prop-
erties are to be used, permission shall be first obtained from
the County Commissioners of Somerset or Wicomico County,
as the case may be, or the Town Commissioners or other cor-
porate authority.

To condemn
land.

Proviso.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That said corporation, within
the scope of the full enjoyment of all the purposes herein-
before mentioned, shall have and enjoy, besides those powers
and privileges in this Act particularly enumerated, all other
general powers and privileges conferred by the General In-
corporation laws of this State upon companies duly incor-
porated under the same, and shall be subject to the general
regulations in such law, except in so far as altered by the
provisions of this Act, or any by-law or regulation of said cor-
poration, adopted in lawful pursuance of the grant of powers
hereby given.

General pow-
ers and
privileges.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.