E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted,
That this act shall
take effect, and be in full force from and after its passage.
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In force.
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CHAPTER
88.
AN ACT to incorporate the Pittsburgh and Connellsville
Rail Road company, in the State of Maryland.
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Passed April
8, 1853.
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WHEREAS, An act has passed the
Legislature of the
State of Pennsylvania, entitled, an act to incorporate the
Pittsburgh and Connellsville rail road company, under
which said company has been organized, and is now in
existence in the State of Pennsylvania; and whereas,
it is desirable that the said Pittsburgh and Connellsville
rail road company should be incorporated in this State.
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Preamble.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Pittsburgh and Connellsville
rail road company, be, and it is hereby declared incorporated
as a body corporate in the State of Maryland, by
the name and style of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville
rail road company, and by that name shall be capable
in law of purchasing, holding, leasing, selling and conveying
estates, real, personal and mixed, so far as shall
be necessary for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and
shall have perpetual succession, and by said corporate
name may sue and be sued, and may have and use a
common seal, which they shall have power to alter and
renew at pleasure, and shall have and enjoy, and may
exercise all the rights, powers and privileges which
other corporate bodies may lawfully do for the purposes
of this act.
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Incorporated.
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SEC. 2. And be
it enacted, That the president and directors
of said company shall build, and they are hereby
invested with all the rights and powers necessary to the
construction and repair of a rail road from the Baltimore
and Ohio rail road, and the Chesapeake and Ohio canal
at the town of Cumberland, to such point on the dividing
line between the States of Maryland and Pennsylvania,
to be by them determined, to join and connect
with any rail road that shall be constructed in the State
of Pennsylvania from the city of Pittsburgh to said dividing
line, and for the construction and repair of a rail
road for any part of said route, not exceeding sixty-six
feet wide, with as many sets of tracts as said company
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President and
directors vested
with power
to construct
road, &c.
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