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connect any lateral rail road, with the rail road or
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CHAP. 326.
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roads, of said Allegany Mining company, by paying
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to said company such sum or sums as may be agreed
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upon, by three disinterested persons appointed by the
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commissioners of the tax of Allegany county to value
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said damage or damages.
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Five directors
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SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the management
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of the companies' business shall be vested in five direc-
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tors who shall be stockholders, and citizens of the
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quorum
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United States, any three of whom, the president be-
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ing one, shall be a quorum for business, or in case of
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his absence or inability, such other director in his
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place as the board shall direct; these directors shall be
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chosen at a legal annual meeting of the company hol-
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Power to appoint
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den for this and other purposes; and they shall have
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president
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the power to appoint their president who shall be one
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of their own number, holding his office during their
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Rules and regular
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pleasure, and the board shall have the power to estab-
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tions
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lish all such rules and regulations, from time to time,
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as they may find necessary in the course of their busi-
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First meeting
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ness, the first meeting of the company shall be holden
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at Washington city in the District of Columbia, on or
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befor the first day of July, eighteen hundred and thir-
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Notcie
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ty six, due notice of the time and place of which meet-
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ing shall he given by J. L. Skinner, first named in this
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charter or any two other members, personally in wri-
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ting to each member of the company; a quorum of the
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company for this meeting shall be a majority in
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amount of stock of all the stockholders, and this shall
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be a quorum in all future meetings of the company
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Directors
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thereafter; at this first meeting, the directors shall be
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Other officers
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chosen, and also a secretary and treasurer of the com-
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pany, and such other standing officers as the company
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may appoint, who shall hold their offices for one year,
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and until others shall be appointed in their stead, and
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these officers shall be annually chosen in all future
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time at an annual meeting of the company at such
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time and place as the company shall direct, notice of
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Notice of meeting
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which annual meeting, and of. all other meetings of
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the company, and of the adjournments thereof, shall
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be given in the manner the company shall direct; in
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all meetings of the company the votes may be given in
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