60

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 60.

AN ACT to alter and amend the charter of the

Hampshire and Baltimore Coal Company, in-

corporated by an act entitled, " an act to recognize

the Hampshire and Baltimore Coal Company, a

corporation created by and existing under the laws

of the State of West Virginia, as a corporation in

the State of Maryland, and to authorize it to ex-

ercfse the powers and privileges of a corporation

within the State of Maryland, for " Mining and

other purposes," passed at January session, eighteen

hundred and sixty-four, chapter two hundred and

ninety-five, by repealing the second section thereof,

and amending the same, and re-enacting it as

amended.

Preamble

WHEREAS, the said Hampshire and Baltimore

Coal Company, owns certain tracts of coal land in

Allegany county, the situation of which is inaccessibly

by ordinary rail roads, for the transportation of coal

from its mines, and its delivery on the line of the-

Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad or Baltimore

and Ohio Railroad, and necessitates the construction

of works and the improvements in the form of rail-

roads, bridges, incline plains and machinery, the

cost of which, and also the expense of maintaining

and operating the same, will be unusually great, and

the alterations of its charter hereby made, are

necessary to enable said corporation to develope its

property and accomplish the ends and purposes of

its incorporation, and the public interest and wprks

of internal improvement of the State, will be pro-

moted by the successful prosecution of its business,

therefore —

Repealed

SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section two of the act of eighteen

hundred and sixty-four, chapter two hundred and

ninety-five, entitled "an act to recognize the Hamp-

shire and Baltimore Coal Company, a corporation

created by and existing under the laws of the State

of West Virginia, as a corporation in the State of