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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

at any time authorized to effect a like consolidation,

and whose road shall form a connected or continuous

line of railroad with the road of the said Worcester

Preamble.

Railroad Company, and that any such consolidation

should be made and effected in the mode therein-

before in said act prescribed for the consolidation of

the Junction and Breakwater Railroad Company,

and the Breakwater and Frankford and Frankford

Railroad Company mentioned in the preceding sec-

tions of said act, and should have the same effect and

be subject to all the restrictions, conditions and

provisions thereinbefore in said act contained,

whether in regard to the preservation of the rights

of creditors and liens, the power of taxation, the

Preamble.

remedy tor objecting stockholders or otherwise how-

soever, and that all the provisions of said act regula-

ting the mode, operation, effect and consequence of

the consolidation of the companies or corporations

in the preceding sections of said act, should belong

to and be in force in regard to any consolidation

provided for by the said section eight, and to any

corporation that may be formed thereby.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall and may

be lawful for the Worcester Railroad Company to

Lawful to con-
solidate.

consolidate its capital stock, franchises and property

with the capital stock, franchises and property of

the said Junction and Breakwater Railroad Com-

pany, and the Breakwater and Frankford Railroad

Company, or with the capital stock, franchises and

property of the corporation formed by the consolida-

tion of the said two companies, so as to form one

company, and it shall and may be lawful at any

Form one
company.

time for the said three companies, or for the corpor-

ation formed by the said consolidation of the said

three companies to consolidate the capital stock,

franchises and property of the said three companies,

or of the corporation formed by their consolidation

as aforesaid with the capital stock, franchises and

property of any railroad created by the State of

Yirginia, having authority to effect a like consoli-

dation, and whose road shall have a connected or

continuous line of railroad with the road of the said

Worcester Railroad Company.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of

effecting such consolidation, it shall and may be

lawful for the directors of said the Worcester Rail-