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CHAPTER 334.
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ANi act to Incorporate the Cumberland Coal Mining
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PasSed MaR. 23,1836
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Company.
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SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Incorporated
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Maryland, That Walter Smith, Clement Smith, Hen-
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ry Huntt, Richard S, Coxe, John A. Smith, John
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Hoye, Samuel P. Smith, Reuben Worthington and
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Henry naylor, their successors and assigns, shall be
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and they are hereby made and created a corporation
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and body politic, by the name and style of the Cumber-
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land Coal Mining Company, and by that name shall
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Powell
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sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer
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and be answered, defend and be defended in any and
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all courts of competent jurisdiction, and as such may
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have and use a common seal, and change and alter the
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same at their pleasure, and to have, exercise and en-
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joy as a corporate body, the powers, rights and privi-
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leges proper and necessary for the purpose of working
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coal, iron and other mines in the county of Allegany,
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and vending the products thereof in their crude and
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manufactured state, with power for the aforesaid pur-
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poses, to purchase, hold and use estate, real, personal
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and mixed; Provided, that the said company shall at
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no time hold or possess in this State, for its said
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mines, and rail road or roads, more than twelve thousand
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acres of land; And provided also, the lands intended to
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be used be located on Dan's mountain, in Allegany
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county, commencing for a beginning at a point-near
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Cresap's town, and running with said mountain towards
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Western Port, parallel with the Potomac; And provi-
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ded also, that not more than six hundred thousand dol-
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lars shall be invested in lands, and that said lands
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shall be valued by three persons, or a majority of them,
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appointed by the Governor and Council, in Allegany
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county, not interested in the, company.
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