THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

peake and Ohio Canal, and of the Baltimore and Ohio

Rail Road, in both of which this State is connected,

CHAP. 326.

will be greatly promoted by the opening and working

of said mines and bringing their products to market:

Therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Incorporated

Maryland, That the said John L. Skinner and his as-

sociates, John R. Noursc, Charles Williams, Orlando

Harriman, John C. Baldwin and F. L. Wilsey, and

those who may be hereafter connected with them in the

operation of the mines aforesaid, shall be and they are

hereby constituted and made a body corporate and

politic, viz: a corporation by the name and style of the

Allegany Mining Company, and as such shall and may

Powers

have perpetual succession; may have a common seal

at their pleasure; may sue and be sued, do and suffer

all acts, exercise all the powers and rights, and be sub-

ject to all the incidents belonging to such corporations

for the purposes and under the limitations hereinafter

named.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the company shall

Right to lands

have the right to hold lands lying contiguous and to-

gether, at and near Frostburg, for the purposes afore-

said, to any amount not exceeding four thousand acres,

Limit

except such lands as they may acquire in the course of

securing and collecting the debts of the company; and

Powers

the company shall have the right of erecting on their

said mining lands, any buildings, shops, mills, facto-

ries, furnaces, forges, or other establishments neces-

sary for the working of their said coal and iron mines,

and for the preparing and bringing the products of

the same to market.

SBC 3. And be it enacted, That the company shall

Construct a Rail

have the right and power to lay out and construct and

Road

keep in perpetual repair a rail road with its appenda-

ges, for the use and operations of said mines, and for

bringing their products to market, viz : to extend from

said mines at or near Frostburg, down Jennings val-

ley, and that of Will's Creek to the basin of the Chesa-

peake and Ohio Canal at Cumberland, at or near

which basin, the company shall have a right to pur-

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