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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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of Lewis Howell such sum of money as they shall be
satisfied that the said Lewis Howell, has over paid to
the several collectors of taxes for Allegany county, such
amount to be refunded to the said Lewis Howell, and
the said levy to be made at the regular levy court of
said commissioners.
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Passed April
9, 1853.
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CHAPTER
96.
AN ACT amendatory of the act entitled, an act to incorporate
the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Rail
Road Company, passed December session eighteen
hundred and forty-nine, chapter four hundred and
sixty-nine.
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Addition to
number of
commissioners.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That there be added to the list of commissioners
named in the first section of said original act,
the four following named persons, to wit: James M.
Buchanan, Elijah Bartholow, David Stewart and
Charles R. Clark, of Baltimore city, and that these four
commissioners, with the commissioners named in said
first section, be, and they are hereby vested with all
and singular, the rights, power and authority given by
said act to the commissioners therein named, to be exercised
by them or any two of them, in the manner
prescribed by said act.
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Power to connect
with existing
rail road.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That the president and
directors of said company shall be, and they are hereby
invested with full right and power to connect with any
existing rail road leading from the town of Cumberland
at any point west of Cumberland, and to construct a
rail road from the place of such connection to the Pennsylvania
line, or to purchase any such rail road or any
part thereof, and the lands, franchises and appurtenances
held for the purpose of the same, with power to construct
and build a connection from any rail road or part
of any rail road so purchased, from any point thereof
west of Cumberland, the said president and directors may
choose to the Pennsylvania line.
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Act void.
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SEC. 3. And be it further
enacted, That in case said
president and directors shall purchase any existing rail
road or part of such road as aforesaid, or in case they shall
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