.FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 533.

AN ACT to provide for the mode of acquisition of property

by the Baltimore Forwarding and Railroad Company, to

authorize said company to connect its tracks with those

of other railroad companies, and to grant it additional

powers as a railroad company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the charter of the Baltimore Forwarding

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ind Railroad Company, a corporation organized and exist-

charter

.ng according to law, be and the same is hereby further

intended to confer upon said company additional rights,

powers and privileges as a railroad corporation.

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

is hereby further invested with all the powers, franchises

Powers.

and privileges now allowed to railroad corporations under

the General Incorporation Laws of the State of Maryland,

and said company is hereby authorized to acquire, build

and construct stations, yards, docks, wharves, and other

terminal facilities for railroad use in either Harford or

Baltimore Counties or in Baltimore City, and to locate,

build and construct a railroad or railroads therefrom to and

to connect its tracks with those of any railroad company

now or hereafter having a railroad in either of said counties

or city.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the president and

directors of said company, or a majority of them, or their

Acquisition
of property

agent or agents, authorized by them, may agree with the

by

owner or owners of any land, or property, or of any ease-

purchase
or by con-

ment therein, or right appurtenant thereto, or of any earth,

demnation.

grade, stone, timber, streams or materials or of any improve-

ments which may be wanted for the proper construction,

maintenance, operation or repair of its said railroad or

raiiroads, or any part thereof, or of its sidings, switches,

connections, depots, stations, yards, docks, wharves and

terminal facilities, for the purchase, use, occupation or

diversion of the same ; and if they cannot agree, or if the

owner or owners or any of them be an infant, feme covert,

who is not possessed of the property to her sole and separate

use and authorized to contract for the same, or non compos

mentis or for any other cause be legally incapable of con-

tracting, or out of the county in which such property wanted

may lie, when such property may be wanted, application

may be made by the said company to any justice of the

peace of such county, who shall thereupon issue his warrant,

under his hand and seal, to the sheriff of such county,