WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 243.

AN ACT to amend chapter seventy of the laws of

eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and to provide

for the consolidation of the Worcester Railroad

Company, a corporation created by this State,

with the Junction and Breakwater Railroad

Company and the Breakwater and Frankford

Railroad Company, corporations created by the

State of Delaware, and with other railroad com-

panies in Maryland and Virginia.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, WHEREAS on the twentieth day

of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, the

Legislature of the State of Delaware passed an act

entitled "An act providing for the Consolidation of

the Junction and Breakwater Railroad Company,

and the Breakwater and Frankford Railroad Com-

Preamble.

pany, with each other, and with other Railroad

Companies in Maryland and Virginia," which act

authorized the consolidation of the said Junction and

Breakwater Railroad Company, and the Breakwater

and Frankford Railroad Company, so as to form one

company in the manner and with the effect in said

act prescribed, and which act further provided in

section eight thereof, that it shall and may be lawful

for the said companies, at the same time, or for the

incorporation formed by the said consolidation of

the two companies at any subsequent time, to con-

solidate the capital stock, franchises and property

of the said two companies, or of the corporation

formed by their consolidation as aforesaid, with the

capital stock, franchises and property of the Worces-

ter Railroad Company, a corporation created by the

State of Maryland, and that it shall and may be

lawful for the said three companies, at the same time,

Preamble.

or for the corporation formed by said consolidation

of said three companies, at any subsequent time, to

consolidate the capital stock, franchises and property

of the said three companies or the corporation formed

by their consolidation as aforesaid, with the capital

stock, franchises and property of any railroad com-

pany created by the State of Virginia, being now or