THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,
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1835.
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CHAPTER 93.
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CHAP. 93.
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A further supplement to the act, entitled, an act to in-
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Passed Mar. 14,1836
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corporate the Delaware and Maryland, Rail Road
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Company.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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First section of the act of Delaware
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Maryland, That the first section of an act, entitled, a
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of 1835 recited
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further supplement to an act, entitled, an act to incor-
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porate the Wilmington and Susquehanna Rail Road
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company, passed by the General Assembly of the State
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of Delaware, on the twenty-fourth day of July, one
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thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, which is in the
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words following, viz :
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Se it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
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General meeting
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tives of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met,
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Two thirds of each branch of the legislature concurring
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in this act, that the President and Directors of the Wil-
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mington and Susquehanna Rail Road Company, or a
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majority of them, and the President and Directors of
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the Delaware and Maryland Rail Road Company, which
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said last mentioned company has been incorporated by
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an act of the Legislature of the State of Maryland, or
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a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised
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and required at any time after the Legislature of Mary-
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land have ratified and adopted this section, as herein-
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after provided, to call a meeting of the Stockholders of
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the Wilmington and Susquehanna Rail Road Company,
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and the Delaware and Maryland Rail Road Company.
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first giving at least three weeks notice of the time,
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Notice require
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place and object of such meeting, in one newspaper
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published in the city of Philadelphia, one in the city of
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Baltimore, one in Cecil county, in the State of Mary-
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land, and one in the State of Delaware, and at the
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said meeting the holders of the major part in amount
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of the stock of each of the said rail road companies,
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attending in person or by proxy, shall be competent to
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decide whether or not the said rail road companies
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shall be united, and together form one body politic and
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corporate upon such terms and stipulations as by them
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shall be deemed proper and expedient; and if at such
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meeting it be decided that the said rail road companies
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To decide upon uniting
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