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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 284.

AN ACT to authorize the Baltimore and Delta

Railway Company to change the time for holding

the annual meeting of its stockholders, and to

authorize and allow the Baltimore and Delta

Railway Company to purchase, lease or consol-

idate with the State Ridge and Delta Railway

Company of Pennsylvania, and to consolidate

with, lease or purchase any railroad which may

connect with its line of road.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the time for holding the

general annual meeting of the stockholders of the

Time of elec-
tion changed.

Baltimore and Delta Railway Company be changed

from the first Thursday after the first Monday in

January in each and every year, to the first Thursday

in February in each and every year hereafter.

SEC. 2. And lie it enacted, That the Baltimore

and Delta Railway Company shall have the right to

purchase, lease or consolidate with the State Ridge

and Delta Railway Company, a corporation formed

under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, and

Right to con-

solidate.

the first named company may merge and consolidate

with, or may lease or purchase, any other railroad

chartered by this State or by the State of Pennsyl-

vania, which may connect with its line of road, upon

such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon

by said companies and approved by a majority in

interest of the stockholders of the respective com-

panies so consolidated, leased or purchased.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That a copy of any

agreement of union shall, within sixty days after the

How authen-

date thereof, authenticated by the seals of each of

ticated.

said corporations, and the signatures of their respec-

tive presidents, be deposited in the office of the

secretary of State of the State of Maryland for

record.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That a copy of such

agreement of union, and also that a copy of the

agreement for the consolidation of the Baltimore

and Harnpden and Towsontown Railroad Company,
and the Baltimore, Towsontown and Dulany's Y alley