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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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road running from Snow Hill to Berlin, in any manner,
at any time and in whatever place they, in their
judgment, may think right and proper and to the best
interest of the county.
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To invest proceeds
of sale.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That the said county
commissioners shall invest in some safe productive
manner, the proceeds of the sale, and the interest
arising from such investment shall be paid annually to
the order of the trustees of the poor, to be applied to the
support of the poor of said county.
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In force.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted,
That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
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Passed May
5, 1853.
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CHAPTER 153.
AN ACT to incorporate the Youghogany Valley Rail
Road Company.
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Commissioners
appointed.
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SECTION 1. Be
it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That C. W. White, Wm. D. Borron,
Stephen Thayer, William Frey, senior, John Fike,
senior, John Slicer, Ralph Thayer, John W. Lynn,
Charles B. Fetter, John Ensley, Francis Thomas,
Patrick Hammill, William Shaw, Truman Fairall,
Truman West, and Henry A. Banon, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners, under the direction of
whom subscriptions may be received to the capital stock
of the Youghogany Valley rail road company, for the purpose
of surveying, locating and building a rail road
from the Pennsylvania State line, at such point as it
may conveniently connect with the Pittsburgh and
Connellsville rail road, by the most practicable route
up Bear creek, to the Baltimore and Ohio rail road, at
some point between Oakland and Westernport, and
may connect with any other rail road or slack water improvement
at or near Westernport, and that the said
commissioners, or a majority of them, may cause books
to be opened at such times and places as they may direct,
for the purpose of receiving subscriptions to the
said capital stock of said company, after having given
such notice of the times and places of opening the
same, as they may deem proper, and if such a subscription
to the capital stock of said company, as is necessary
for its incorporation be not previously obtained,
the said books may be opened from time to time, at the
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