ELIHU B. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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meeting of the stockholders of said company, and to continue the

succession of said company; a general meeting of the stockholders

shall be held ou the first Tuesday of April, or within three weeks

thereafter, of which meeting at least one week's notice shall be

given by the president and directors by advertisement in one of

the daily papers published in Hagerstown; and at each of said

Meetings.

annual meetings a president and eight directors, the president to

be chosen from the said directors, shall bfi elected as aforesaid to

serve for one year, or until their successors shall be elected at

the quarterly meetings of the stockholders for such purposes, and

in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed by the laws

of said company, may be called by the president and directors,

or a majority of them; the president and directors shall meet as

often as may be prescribed in the by-laws of said company.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the president and directors or

a majority of them shall have power to make and adopt, alter and

amend such by-laws, rules and regulations for the direction and

management of said company as may in their judgment, from

time to time be necessary for the purposes of the corporation ;

provided, they are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws

Power.

of this State and the provisions of this charter; and the president

and directors of said company, or a majority of them, shall have

the power to employ all such agents and servants for the construc-

tion, maintenance, repair and preservation of the railway and other

property of said company, and the running of cars and transpor-

tation of passengers thereon, and for the transaction of all the

business of said company as in their judgment may be necessary.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the company hereby incorpor-

ated shall have the power to make and construct and maintain a

railway, with double or single track and sidings as they may deem

Construct

expedient for the transportation in cars propelled by electricity,

horses or in any other manner than by steam, in and over the

streets of the city of Hagerstown, in this State; provided, how-

ever, that it shall first obtain the right to secure said streets from

the mayor and city council of said city.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That said company shall not charge

more than (5 c.) five cents fare for the conveyance of each pas-

senger over fourteen years of age, and not more than three cents

CJargea.

for each child between the ages of four (4) and fourteen years (14)

from any point on any line of its railway to any other point

within the said city of Hagerstown.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons shall

wilfully, by any means whatsoever, injure, impair, destroy any

part of said railway, or any of the cars, works or buildings, or

other property of said company, or place any obstruction on said

railway, by means of which any injury may be done to any of the

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