THOMAS W. VEAZET, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

to the said Directors: And the persona who shall sub-

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scribe for the capital stock aforesaid, their associates

Corporate powers

and successors, shall be and they are hereby declared

granted

to be a, body corporate, by the namec of the Baltimore

and Peach Bottom Rail Road Company, and as such,

by that name shall be enable in law of purchasing,

holding, selling and conveying estates, real, personal

and mixed, so far as shall be necessary for the purpo-

ses in this act mentioned, and shall have perpetual suc-

cession, and by said corporate name may sue and be

sued, and have and use a common seal, which they

may alter and renew at their pleasure, and shall have

and may use, enjoy and exercise all and singular the

powers, rights, privileges, authorities, immunities and

advantages for the surveying, locating and construct-

Objects specified

ing a rail road, which shall be commenced at some

convenient point on the Baltimore and Susquehanna

Bail Road, and run thence to the State line in a direc-

tion towards each Bottom Ferry, on the Susquehan-

na river, and from the said line, when authority shall

have been given by the State of Pennsylvania, to inter-

sect the Philadelphia and Columbia Bail Boad at some

eligible point thereof, and for the using, repairing and

controling the said rail road, its necessary vehicles,

works or buildings and every part thereof, and for the

election of its President and Directors; and the mode

Shares, personal

of transfering shares of its capital stock, which are

estate

hereby made and declared to be personal estate, and

the charging and collecting tolls on transportation,

Tolls

the procuring and employing vehicles and necessary

moving power for transporting persons and property,

the declaring and paying dividends, increasing the

capital stock or borrowing money on the credit of the

company for its lawful purposes, employing officers,

Officers, &c

agents, engineers, artificers, workmen or servants,

passing by-laws and holding annual and special meet-

ings, and generally for the beneficial management of

General power; of

the lawful business and affairs of said corporation,

B. & O. R. R. C.

which by the act to incorporate the Baltimore and Ohio

Rail Road Company, and its several supplements, are

given granted, permitted, authorised or secured to said

company for the purposes and objects thereof, and