FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 599.

AN ACT to incorporate the Annapolis, Eastport and Bay

Ridge Electric Railway and Power Company of Anne

Arundel County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That James H. Vansant, Edward Powers, James

J. Johnson, Charles A. Duboes, W. Hallam Claude, Richard

Incorpora-
tion.

H. Green, Jr., Jos. H. Belles, Nevitt Steele, W. Clemment

Claude, F. Eugene Wathen, George H. Carpenter, George

W. Selsby and George W. Willcox, and their associates and

successors, and assigns, be and they are hereby incorporated

and created a body corporate, by the name and style of the

"Annapolis, Eastport and Bay Ridge Electric Railway and

Power Company of Anne Arundel County," and by that

name shall have succession and be empowered to sue and be

sued, complain and defend in any Court of Law or Equity,

—— to make and use a common seal and alter the same at

pleasure, to receive and make deeds and contracts ; to pur-

chase or in any manner whatsoever acquire, receive, hold,

use, employ, manage, lease, mortgage in any way consistent

with law, deal with any species of property, real, personal

or mixed, within or without this State, which may be con-

sistent with the objects of said corporation, or proper to

enable it to successfully carry on its operations, and fulfill

the purposes hereinafter named in this act, and generally

to do, and perform all acts and things consistent with law,

which may appear to be necessary and proper to promote

the objects, designs and purposes for which this corporation

is formed, which are hereby, declared to be the manufac-

ture and propagation of electricity for the propulsion of

cars over and along a railway to be laid and operated

between Annapolis and Bay Ridge, and Annapolis and

Friendship in Anne Arundel County, and for all other par-

poses to which electricity or magnetism may or can be

applied.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said

corporation shall be one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,

Capital
stock.

divided into fifteen hundred shares of one hundred dollars

each, which capital stock may be increased by the president

and board of directors to be elected as hereinafter provided,

to an amount not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand

dollars.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all persons herein named

Subscrip-

as incorporators or a majority of them, shall cause subscrip-

tions.

tion books to be opened at once at/such places, and for such