ART. 23] CORPORATIONS. 249

Mining Companies.

1904, art. 23, sec. 228. 1888, art. 23, sec. 145. 1860, art. 77, sec. 2.
1868, ch. 471, sec. 139. 1912, ch. 112.

246. The president and directors of any corporation mentioned in
the preceding section shall be invested with full power to locate and con-
struct a railroad or railroads, with necessary appurtenances, beginning
the same at or near the mines, manufactories or works of the said cor-
poration and running to any convenient point or points that may best
suit the convenience and interest of said corporation, or beginning at
the tipple or other works of said corporation, or at the place where said

corporation intends or designs to erect such tipple or other works, and
running either on the surface, underground or by elevated road, or
partly on the surface and partly by the other methods or one of them,
to the vein of coal or other minerals at the point at which said corpora-
lion may desire to open or work the same; and to use and control said
railroad or railroads, and the necessary vehicles and appurtenances
thereto belonging.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code.

250.

As to condemnation, see article 33A.

Minors—Institutions and Societies for Care and Protection of.
258.

For various provisions for the "protection of minors," see article 27, sec.
tion 343, et seq.

Railroad Corporations.
260.

To the first and second notes to this section on page 652 of volume 1 of the
Annotated Code, add the case of Hyattsville v. Washington B. Co., 120 Md.
130.

As to obstructing railroads, see article 27, section 412, et seq.

As to "The Transportation of White and Colored Passengers," see article
27, section 387, et seq.

For the "Jim Crow" law, see art. 27, sec. 398, et seq.

26l.

Under this section and section 263 and prior decisions of the Court of Ap-
peals, the termini must be fixed in this state with reasonable certainty; the
naming of two cities outside of the state as the termini would not ordi-
narily be sufficient; if, however, it is proved that a road running from
Washington, D. C., to Gettysburg, Pa., through the counties and at or near
the towns mentioned in the company's charter, will cross the Maryland lines
within such distance that the points of crossing can be said to be fixed with
reasonable certainty, such points may be treated as the termini in Mary-
land. If it be shown that the lines of Washington and of the District of
Columbia are co-extensive, that is sufficient for the southerly terminus.
Every incorporated town or village through or by which a railroad is event-
ually laid out, need not be mentioned in its charter; object of the second
provision of this section. The fact that a railroad company's charter pro-
vides that "The capital stock of said company shall be one hundred thou-
sand dollars" instead of stating it as the amount necessary to construct the
road, does not make it invalid. Where the public service commission gave