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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect and

Effective.

be in force from the date of the passage thereof.

Approved March 22, 1890.

CHAPTEE 127.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Potomac Valley railroad

company by enlarging its powers and authorizing it to make

certain contracts.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the Potomac Valley railroad company, a corporation duly

incorporated under the provisions of article twenty-three of the

Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, relating to railroad

companies and the incorporation thereof, be and the same is

hereby authorized and empowered to execute and deliver a lease

of its railroad and all other property to the Western Maryland

railroad company or to the Western Maryland tidewater railroad

May lease

company, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the parties
to such lease, and to sell and convey its railroad and other prop-

erty to either of the companies above named; and that the lessee

or purchaser of the railroad and other property of said Potomac

Valley railroad company, shall acquire by such lease or purchase

all the rights to use said railroad and other property which the

said Potomac Valley railroad company is entitled to under its

charter, or under any amendment thereof; provided, however,

that no such lease or sale of the railroad and property of the said

Potomac Valley railroad company shall be made without the con-

sent of a majority of the stockholders of said company, repre-

sented in person or by proxy, at a general or special meeting of

said stockholders convened according to the charter and by-laws

of said company.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said Potomac Valley

railroad company be and it is hereby authorized and empowered

to accept a lease and become the lessee of the whole or of any part

of any railroad owned or constructed, or that may hereafter be

owned or constructed under the laws of this State, or of any other

State; provided, that the railroad of which it may so become

May be

lessee, shall be a road connecting with, or in extension of the

lessee

railroad of the Western Maryland railroad company or of one of

its branches, or connecting with or in extension of a railroad

leased, owned or operated by said Western Maryland railroad

company; the lease hereby authorized to be accepted by said Po-

tomac Valley railroad company may include any branch of the

roads so leased, and the shops, depots, buildings, elevators,

wharves, vessels and other property of such leased roads and