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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Give notice.

to be held respectively by the stockholders of each

company, after notice of at least thirty days, by
advertisement in some newspaper published in An-

napolis, and two newspapers published in the city of
Baltimore, of the times, places and objects of said

meetings.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the fact of such

consolidation and merger of the Annapolis and Elk

Agreement to

Ridge Railroad Company with and in the Baltimore

be set forth.

and Drum Point Railroad Company, if agreed on,

together with the terms and conditions of such agree-

ment, shall be fully set forth in a certificate, under

the seals of the two said corporations, signed by their

respective presidents, attested by the secretaries of

the stockholders meetings aforesaid, and recorded in

the office of the clerk of the Court of Appeals, from

and after which recording the said Annapolis and

Elk Eidge Railroad Company shall cease to exist as

a corporate body, and shall be held and taken to be

incorporated with and merged in the said Baltimore

and Drum Point Railroad Company, which latter

body corporate shall thenceforward have and enjoy

Subject to

all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities,
and be subject to all the debts, liabilities and obliga-

debts, &c.

tions which were of each and both of said corpora-

tions at the time of the consolidation herein provided

for, so especially as that no liens or incumbrances

then being upon the property, franchises or revenues

of either of said corporations shall be in any way

affected or be hindered in their enforcement by any-

thing herein contained or hereby authorized.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That nothing herein

contained shall be construed to authorize the con-

solidation of said Annapolis and Elk Eidge Railroad

How con-

Company with said Baltimore and Drum Point

strued.

Railroad Company until and after the last named

company shall have built and completed, and have

in good running order the railroad from Drum Point

to some point on the line of the railroad of the said

Annapolis and Elk Eidge Railroad Company ; pro-

vided the Board of Public Works shall give their

consent in writing to the terms of said consolida-
tion.