1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That after the expiration

CHAP. 92.

of the six days for which the hooks shall have been

Meeting to organize

first opened, if four thousand shares of the said capital

stock shall have been subscribed, or if not as soon

thereafter as the same shall have been subscribed if

within three years after the first opening of the hooks,

the said commissioners or any three of them, shall

give thirty days public notice of the time and place of

holding an election for a President and five Directors

of the said company, and that in said election, stock-

holders may vote in person or by proxy, according to

the number of shares held, to be entitled to one vote

for each share, and the commissioners named in the

original act, or any three or more of them, shall be

judges of the said first election of Directors, and any

stockholder shall be eligible as President or Director,

and the said commissioners shall deliver over the ori-

ginal subscriptions to the President and Directors

immediately after their election.

May construct Rail

SEC. 5. And 6e it enacted, That as soon as the Al-

Bond

legany Coal Mine Rail Road Company shall be organ-

ized, according to the several provisions of the origi-

nal and this supplemental act, the President and Di-

rectors of said company, or a majority of them may

construct and repair a Rail Road, from some such

suitable point as may be determined on by them, on

the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, or on the Basin,

which may be formed by said Canal company, at or

location

near the town of Cumberland, to the respective Coal

Mines up the valley of Wills' Creek, to the junction of

Braddocks' run, thence up the valley of Braddocks'

run, with lateral ways to the different coal mines, in

the discretion of the President and Directors, or a

Provisoes

majority of them as may seem most expedient; provid-

ed, that nothing in the original or this supplemental

acts, shall be so construed as to prohibit any individual

or individuals from connecting any lateral way with

the Allegany Coal Mine Rail Road, or any of its

branches where such connection can be made without

injury to the road; provided the President and Direc-

tors do not construct such lateral way or ways, on the

Bequest of the owners of the lands on which such lat-