JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 473
hereby declared to be incorporated into a company
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How incor-
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by the name of the Baltimore, Highlandtown and
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porated.
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Riverview Railroad Company, and by that name
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shall be capable in law of purchasing, holding, sell-
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ing, leasing and conveying estate, real personal and
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mixed, so far as shall be necessary for the purpose
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hereinafter mentioned, and no further, and shall have
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perpetual succession by said corporate name ; may
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sue and be sued, and have and use a common seal,
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which they shall have power to alter or renew at
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pleasure, and shall have and enjoy and may exercise
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all the powers, rights and privileges which are neces-
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sary for the purposes mentioned in this act.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That upon every sub-
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scription there shall be paid at the time of subscribing,
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to the said commissioners or their agents appointed
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Amount to
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to receive such subscriptions, the sum of one dollar
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be paid.
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on every share subscribed, and the residue thereof
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shall be paid in such installments as the president
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and directors of the said railroad company hereinafter
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directed to be appointed shall require ; provided
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that no payment shall be demanded until notice be
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given in such manner as the said president and di-
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rectors may elect ; and if any subscriber shall fail or
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neglect to pay an instalment or part thereof thus
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demanded for the space of sixty days next after the
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time the said installment shall be due and payable,
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the stock on which it is demanded shall be forfeited
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Forfeiture.
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to the company, but the president and directors may
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remit any such forfeitures on such terms as they
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shall deem proper ; provided always that in addition
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to the forfeitures aforesaid the said company shall be
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entitled to receive, sue for and recover the said in-
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stallment and subscription due as aforesaid, and in
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such manner as other debts and claims are now
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recoverable by law.
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SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That if the subscrip-
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tions herein deemed necessary to the incorporation
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of said company shall not be obtained within two
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years after the first opening of the subscription books
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by the said commissioners, this act and all the sub-
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scriptions under it shall be null and void, and the
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Null and void
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said commissioners, after discharging the expenses of
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opening the books, shall return the residue of the
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