882 ARTICLE 23

An. Code, 1924, sec. 211. 1912, sec. 276. 1904, sec. 258. 1888, sec. 171. 1876, ch. 242, sec. 15.

214. Such company shall have power to borrow money on the credit of
the corporation, not exceeding its authorized capital stock, at a rate of
interest to be agreed upon by the respective parties, and may execute bonds
or promissory notes therefor, in sums of not less than one hundred dollars,
and to secure the payment thereof, may pledge the property and income of
such company.
See sec. 391.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 212. 1912, sec. 277. 1904, sec. 259. 1888, sec. 172. 1876, ch. 242, sec. 16.

215. Such company may acquire by purchase or gift, any lands in the
vicinity of said road or through which the same may pass, so far
as may be deemed convenient or necessary by said company to secure the
right of way, or such as may be granted, to aid in the construction of such
road, and the same to hold or convey, in such manner as the directors
may prescribe; and all deeds and conveyances made by such company,
shall be signed by the president, under the seal of the corporation.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 213. 1912, sec. 278. 1904, sec. 260. 1888, sec. 173. 1876, ch. 242,

sec. 17. 1880, ch. 282.

216. It shall be lawful for such corporation, whenever it may be neces-
sary in the construction of its road, to cross any road, highway or stream
of water, to divert the same from its present or existing location or bed;
provided, it is not a navigable stream; and it shall be lawful for such
corporation, or for any railroad corporation heretofore incorporated under
any general or special law, whose railroad now crosses or may hereafter
cross any public or private road or highway, to carry said road or highway
over its tracks by an overgrade crossing, or to carry it under its track or
tracks by an undergrade crossing; and to make such crossings, such cor-
porations may divert any road or highway, so crossed or to be crossed,
from its present or existing location; and for entering upon, taking or
appropriating any buildings, gardens, yards or other lands which may be
necessary for the new route and location of said road so diverted, said cor-
poration may proceed as in case of land necessary for its railroad, under the
powers given to it by law, but said corporation shall, without unnecessary
delay, place such road or highway or stream in such condition as to not
impair its former usefulness; and such corporation shall be liable for dam-
age caused by the diversion of any stream; and when said new road is
properly laid out, completed and constructed by said company with such
overgrade or undergrade crossings, in a manner satisfactory to the county
commissioners of the county where said road is located, it shall be the duty
of the said county commissioner to close the old road and grade crossings;
and it shall be lawful for such company to close the former grade crossing.

The constitutionality of this section has never been assailed. This section referred
to in upholding the validity of art. 33A (as it stood prior to the act of 1914, ch. 463)—
see notes thereto. Pitznogle v. Western Md. R. Co., 119 Md. 680.

See secs. 246 and 252, and art. 27, secs. 537 and 538, and notes to sec. 211 (this article).

An. Code, 1924, sec. 214. 1912, sec. 279. 1904, sec. 261. 1888, sec. 174. 1876, ch. 242, see. 18.

217. Such corporation shall, as soon as convenient after its organiza-
tion, establish a principal office at some point on the line of its road, and
change the same at pleasure, giving public notice in some newspaper, of
such establishment or change.