FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 264.

AN ACT to incorporate the Maryland and Washington

Railway Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That Wright Rivers, Louis D. Wino, John O.

Johnson, Charles A. Wells, A. G. Bliss, Van H. Manning,

Incor-

Wallace, A. Bartlett, Benjamin D. Stephen, D. M. Nesbit,

porated.

Pinkney Scaggs, Fillmore Bealle, Stephen Gambrill,

William I. Hill, Charles H. Stanley, Robert V. Hall,

Edward Phelps, Francis H. Smith, Frank Browning and

Charles E. Caffin of the State of Maryland, and Joseph A.

Blundon, Edwin A. Newman and Ellis Spear of the District

of Columbia, and their successors and assigns, are hereby

created a body corporate under the name of the Maryland

and Washington Railway Company, with power to sue and

be sued, to plead and be impleaded, and have and use a

common seal, and to change the same at pleasure, with

authority to construct, and lay down a single or double

track railway, with the necessary switches and turnouts, in

Prince George's County, Maryland, from a point or points

beginning on the northeast boundary line of the District of

Columbia, and connecting with any passenger railway or

railways within the District of Columbia, all of said con-

nections uniting at the nearest convenient point, to said

boundary line, running thence in a northerly direction by

the most Convenient route, to be approved by the County

Commissioners, of Prince George's County to the village of

Brauchville in said county and State, with the right within

five years after the approval of this act, to extend said

railway from Branchville to Laurel, Maryland, or to any

intermediate point, and with the right to run public car-

riages thereon drawn or propelled by horse, steam, electricity,

cable or other improved motive power, receiving a rate of

fare not exceeding two cents per mile for each passenger,

provided, said fare be not less than five cents for one pas-

senger for any distance, and with authority to construct

and lay down any lateral or connecting road or roads not

exceeding ten miles in length, in said Prince George's or

in Montgomery Counties, any extension in Montgomery

County to be likewise approved by the County Commis-

sioners of said Montgomery County, with the right to run

public carriages thereon drawn by horse power or pro-

pelled or drawn by steam, electricity or cable or other

"improved motive power.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the road of said company

with all its property and franchises shall be liable to taxa-

Liability to
taxation.

tion as is or may be provided by law.