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CHAPTEE 127.
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AN ACT to amend the charter of the Potomac Valley railroad
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company by enlarging its powers and authorizing it to make
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certain contracts.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
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That the Potomac Valley railroad company, a corporation duly
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incorporated under the provisions of article twenty-three of the
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Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, relating to railroad
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companies and the incorporation thereof, be and the same is
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hereby authorized and empowered to execute and deliver a lease
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of its railroad and all other property to the Western Maryland
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railroad company or to the Western Maryland tidewater railroad
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May lease
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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-
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erty to either of the companies above named; and that the lessee
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or purchaser of the railroad and other property of said Potomac
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Valley railroad company, shall acquire by such lease or purchase
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all the rights to use said railroad and other property which the
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said Potomac Valley railroad company is entitled to under its
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charter, or under any amendment thereof; provided, however,
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that no such lease or sale of the railroad and property of the said
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Potomac Valley railroad company shall be made without the con-
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sent of a majority of the stockholders of said company, repre-
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sented in person or by proxy, at a general or special meeting of
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said stockholders convened according to the charter and by-laws
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of said company.
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SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said Potomac Valley
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railroad company be and it is hereby authorized and empowered
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to accept a lease and become the lessee of the whole or of any part
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of any railroad owned or constructed, or that may hereafter be
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owned or constructed under the laws of this State, or of any other
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State; provided, that the railroad of which it may so become
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May be
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lessee, shall be a road connecting with, or in extension of the
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lessee
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railroad of the Western Maryland railroad company or of one of
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its branches, or connecting with or in extension of a railroad
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leased, owned or operated by said Western Maryland railroad
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company; the lease hereby authorized to be accepted by said Po-
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tomac Valley railroad company may include any branch of the
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roads so leased, and the shops, depots, buildings, elevators,
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wharves, vessels and other property of such leased roads and
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