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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 200.

AN ACT to amend an act passed at the January

session of eighteen hundred and sixty- eight, chap-

ter three hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An act

to incorporate the Baltimore and Drum Point

Railroad Company," by extending the time for

the completion of the road of said company and

by authorizing the same to acquire the rights of

the State and all others interested in the Annap-

olis and Elk Ridge Railroad Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the time for the comple-

tion of the main line of the road of the Baltimore

Time extend-

and Drum Point Railroad Company be and the same

ed.

is hereby extended to the first day of May, in the

year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and that
none of the rights or privileges granted to the said

company by its original charter passed at the Janu-
ary session of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,

chapter three hundred and sixty-four, or any supple-
ment thereto, shall be in anywise avoided by reason

of the failure of said company to complete its said

road prior to the said first day of May, eighteen hun-

dred and eighty-five.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Baltimore

and Drum Point Railroad Company, whenever the

same shall have been completed and in operation

between Drum Point and the Annapolis and Elk

Acquire

Ridge Railroad, then, and in that case, the said Bal-

State's inter-

timore and Drum Point Railroad Company shall be

est.

and it is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire
from the Board of Public Works all the interest of

the State in the Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad

Company, and all the claims and demands of the

State against the said last named company, on such

terms as the said board may deem advantage-

ous to the State; and also to acquire from all other

persons whatsoever, willing to dispose of the same,