FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 461.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Easton, Trappe and

Cambridge Railroad Company, and to extend and enlarge

the privileges and powers of said railroad company, incor-

porated under and by virtue of the General Laws of this

State, relating to the formation of railroad companies as

set out in the Marylaud Code of Public General Laws of

1888, article 23, and all supplements thereto, the articles

of in corporation of which company, have been duly recorded

in the office of the Secretary of the State of Maryland,

under the provisions of said Code of General Laws.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the Easton, Trappe and Cambridge Rail-

Easton,

road Company, a corporation duly incorporated, in the year

Trappe &
Cambridge

eighteen hundred and ninety -two, by and under articles of

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incorporation duly recorded in the office of the Secretary of

the State of Maryland, under the provisions of the Code of

Public General Laws of this State, for the purpose of con-

structing and maintaining and operating a railroad in Mary-

land, beginning at a point in Talbot County, between

Easton and Oxford on the D. & C. R. R. or B. & E. S. R. R.

Maryland, and running in a southerly direction to the town

of Trappe through said county ; thence to a point in said

county opposite Cambridge as one of the termini of said

road, and which is hereby ratified, shall have the power to

unite, connect and consolidate with any railroad company

or companies, in this State, so that the capital stock of said

companies so uuited,connected and consolidated, respectively

may at the pleasure of the directors, constitute a common

stock, and the respective companies may thereafter consti-

tute one company and be entitled to all the rights, privi-

leges and immunities which each of them possess, have and

enjoy under and by virtue of their respective charters.

SEC. 2 And be it enacted, That the Easton, Trappe and

Cambridge Railroad Company shall have the power to con-

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nect with any railroad, or railroads, in this State, for the

said com-

purpose of carrying on its business, and shall have power to

pany.

lease or sell the railroad constructed by it to any other corpora-

tion created by the laws of this State, or any other State,

or make any agreement or contract tor the use of said rail-

road, and of all or any of its property, on such terms and

for such time as may be agreed upon between it and any

other corporation created by the laws of this or any other

State, or between it and any individual or individuals, as it

may deem best for the interest of said company.