E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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CHAPTER 431.
AN ACT to incorporate the Washington County Rail
Road Company.
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Passed May
30, 1853.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Daniel Weisel, William Loughridge,
Samuel Claggett, Robert Fowler, John Wolf,
Hezekiah Boteler, George Cushwa, Elias Davis, John
Snyder, Wilfred D. McCardell, William Stonebraker,
William B. McLain, William Miller, Emory Edwards,
Thomas S. Crampton, George Strause, James H. Carter,
Henry S. Garrett, Zenos Barnum and David Brumbaugh,
be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners,
under the direction of a majority of whom, subscriptions
may be received to the capital stock of the
Washington County Rail Road Company, for the purpose
of surveying, locating and building a rail road from
Hagerstown, by the most practicable route, to some
point on the Baltimore and Ohio rail road, at or within
three miles east or west from Weverton, not exceeding
sixty-six feet wide, and that the said commissioners or a
majority of them may cause books to be opened at such
tomes and places as they may direct for the purpose of
receiving subscriptions to the said capital stock of said
company, to which any person, corporation or association
of individuals may subscribe 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 discretion of
said commissioners or a majority of them, and if any
of the said commissioners shall die, resign, or refuse to
act during the continuance of the duties devolved upon
them by this act, another may be appointed in his stead
by the remaining commissioners or a majority of them.
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Commissioners
appointed.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That the capital stock
of the Washington county rail road company, shall be
one million dollars, in shares of twenty dollars each,
which said capital may be increased at the discretion
of the directors to be appointed as hereinafter provided
for, to an amount not exceed one and an half millions
of dollars, and as soon as five thousand shares of
the capital stock shall be subscribed, the subscribers
of the said stock their successors and assigns, shall be,
and they are hereby declared to be incorporated into a
company, by the name of the Washington County Rail
Road Company, and by that name shall be capable in
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Capital stock.
Incorporated.
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