ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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company, for the purchase, use and occupation of the same, and

if no such agreement can be reached or the owner or owners or

any of them be an infant or infants, f erne covert not possessed of

the property to her sole and separate use, non compos mentis or out

of the county where such property needed may lie, or for any

other cause be legally incapacitated of contracting, then in all

such case or cases it shall be lawful for said company to have

Authority

such needed property condemned under and according to section

to con-
demn.

six, of article twenty-three, of the Code of Public General Laws

of the State of Maryland, of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight;

provided, that if it shall appear or be shown at any inquisition

under this charter, that said company at any time or times before

the same shall have offered or tendered to the owner or owners of

the property sought to be condemned, other than such may be

under the disabilities mentioned, a sum of current money equal

or more than the sum allowed by the jury of condemnation, and

if such offer or tender was refused, then the owners in such cases be

charged or taxed with the costs and expenses of the condemna-

tion.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said company shall have

power to borrow money on its bonds, they in their terms or pro-

visions being made a lien or liens on its property real and per-

To borrow

sonal, but not to issue any note, token or device to be used as

money.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the general meeting of the

stockholders shall be held as soon as convenient after the said five

hundred shares of capital stock shall have been subscribed and

Meetings

thereafter at such times and places as the president and directors

shall determine, and until the first general meeting of the stock-

holders, (when a president and a board of directors shall be

elected) the said corporators or a majority of them shall have

full power to exercise all the franchises and powers of said cor-

poration.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.