636 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

of a certificate showing a compliance with all of the said pro-
visions and preliminaries, and setting forth the business to
which the business of said corporation has been changed or
enlarged, then the business which said corporation may carry on
thenceforth shall be that to which it has been thus changed or
enlarged; and the company shall be entitled to all the privileges
and provisions and be subject to all the liabilities of this
article.

Mining Companies.

1888, art. 23, sec 144. 1860, art. 77, sec 1. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 138.
1874, ch. 432.

227. No corporation formed under this article, for any of
the purposes mentioned in classes nine, ten, eleven and twelve
(sections 24, 25, 26 and 27), as hereinbefore designated, shall
hold more than one thousand acres of land at any one time, if
said corporation is situated in Allegany county; nor more than
five hundred acres if in any other county; nor shall its capital
stock exceed three million dollars; and the presence, in person
or by proxy, of a majority in interest of the stockholders shall
be necessary to form a quorum for business at any meeting of
the stockholders or members.

Ibid sec. 145. 1860, art. 77, sec. 2. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 139.

228. The president and directors of any corporation men-
tioned in the preceding section shall be invested with full
power to locate and construct a railroad or railroads, with
necessary appurtenances, beginning the same at or near the
mines, manufactories or- works of the said corporation, and
running to any convenient point or points that may best suit
the convenience and interest of said corporation, and to use
and control the said railroad or railroads, and the necessary
vehicles and appurtenances thereunto belonging.

New York Mining Co. v. Midland Mining Co., 98 Md. —.

Ibid. sec. 146. 1860, art. 77, sec. 3. 1868, ch. 471. sec. 140.

229. It shall not be lawful for any such corporation formed
under this article to occupy any portion of the lands that may
be necessary for the accommodation of the works of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio canal company, or the main route of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, or the works of any other rail-
road company chartered by this State, except to cross said
roads without injury to the same.