JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1833

connect the same with the Railway oa President Street, in
such manner as not to injure the said Railway, or interrupt
the travelling thereon: and, may extend and construct their
said Rail Road, in the manner authorised by their charter,
from President street, along Wilke street, and such other
streets east of President street, and South of Wilke street,
as the said company may find to be necessary, to the East-

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ern boundary of the city of Baltimore; Provided, that the
said company before they commence the construction of
the said Rail Road shall obtain the assent in writing of the
owners of the major part of front feet in the aggregate on
each side of the streets through which the said Rail Road
shall pass the whole distance between President street and
the Eastern Boundary of the city of Baltimore.

Provided

CHAPTER 79.

An act, to Incorporate the Baltimore Lyceum.

Passed Jan. 27,1834.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That William G. Jones, Joseph D. Learned,
John Gable, Reverend Otis A. Skinner, James H. Miller,
Alonzo W. Barnes, D. P. Bernard, George F. Stone, Ed-
ward Hinkley, Edward Forman, F. H. Smith, William
Byrd Powel, S. Candler, Isaiah Balderston, Joseph H. Als-
ton, Zebulon. Waters, Reverend J. G. Morris, J. J. Co-
hen, jr. W. E. Cole, H. Sims, James B. Rogers, David
Hill, William T. Williams, Thomas Coine, N. W. Chava-
lier, John Mawton, Edward Needles and James Curley,
and their associates, successors and assigns, be, and they
are hereby created a corporation and body politic, by the
name and style of The Baltimore Lyceum, and by that
name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able
and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be im-
pleaded, answer and be answered, in any court of law or
equity; to make and use a common seal, and the same to
alter and change at pleasure, to ordain and establish such
by-laws and regulations, not contrary to law, as shall be
necessary or convenient for conducting the affairs of the
corporation.

Persons incorporat-

ed

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the objects of this cor-
poration are declared to be the promotion of literature, and
the encouragement of the arts and sciences, by providing
a Library, Philosophical, Chemical and Astronomical Ap-

Objects expressed.