ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 609.

AN ACT to incorporate the Castleman timber and pulp company

of Garrett county.

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

That George L. Wellington, W. E. Getty, Daniel Chisholm,

Charles Brown, Peter S. Hay and such other persons as may

become associated with them in manner as hereinafter provided,

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be and are hereby made and constituted a body politic and cor-

porate by the name of Castleman timber and pulp company, and

by that name shall have succession and be able to sue and be sued,

plead and be impleaded in any court whatever, and may have and

use a common seal, and the same alter and renew at pleasure.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporate body shall

have all the powers, faculties, franchises and rights necessary,

proper and convenient to cut and make logs or billets of wood

from standing or fallen timber and transport them by land, rail-

road or water to market or such places as the interest of said cor-

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poration may require, to manufacture from the raw material by

means of mills and machinery lumber in all forms, and dressed

or prepared lumber or material for building, also pulp out of

wood for the use of making paper, and also to buy, sell and dis-

pose of timber standing or fallen, or logs and billets of wood.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That to enable said corporation to

conduct its business and operations it is empowered to build, con-

struct and maintain in said Garrett county, such common road

or roads, tram-roads and iron railroads with all the necessary

engines and appurtenances as may be needed in said business, and

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as a facilitation to said business and operations said company is

authorized and empowered to erect, construct and maintain in

said Garrett county upon the Castleman river, sometimes called

"Little Crossings," and its north and south forks, boom or booms,

as may be necessary for stopping or securing logs, timber and

rafts to be floated on any of the streams or waters mentioned, and

for the cleaning out of their beds, and the removing from their

banks for a reasonable margin any and all impediments or ob-

structions, and for the erection thereon splash dams in such num-

ber and manner and way as may make them convenient and safe

for the floating or moving of logs, timber, rafts, billets to market

or such other place or places as may be necessary; provided, such
improvements shall not interfere with any bridge, mill-dam or

any existing public improvement, without the consent of the

owners or controllers thereof.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall have

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the power to aquire by purchase or any other means any property

or interests therein, real or personal, and to hold, use and manage

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