WM. T HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 339.

AN ACT to extend the privileges and enlarge the

powers of the Annapolis and Baltimore Short

Line Railroad Company, incorporated under the

act of Assembly of this State, passed at the Janu-

ary session, eighteen hundred and seventy-six,

chapter two hundred and forty-two, entitled "An

act to provide for the creation and regulation of

incorporated companies in the State of Maryland."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the Annapolis and Balti-

more Short Line Railroad Company, a corporation

duly incorporated in the year eighteen hundred and

eighty, under the provisions of an act passed in

January, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, chapter

two hundred and forty-two, entitled "An act to

provide for the creation and regulation of incorpor-

Additional

ated companies in the State of Maryland," for the

power granted

purpose of building, equipping, maintaining and

working a railroad from the city of Annapolis and

Severn river, through the counties of Anne Arundel

and Baltimore, to the city of Baltimore, shall, in

addition to the powers granted under the act of

eighteen hundred and seventy-six, chapter two hun-

dred and forty-two, and the act of eighteen hundred

and eighty, chapter three hundred and eighty-four,

have the power to construct branch roads, to lease,

Construct

buy and improve lands for pleasure resorts along

branch roads.

the line of their road, and a produce market at or

near the terminal of their road in the city of Balti-

more; to lease, buy and build wharves, houses and

shops for corporate purposes; to charter, purchase

and hold steamships, steamboats and barges, to ply

in connection with their railroad, to any port or

ports, place or places whatsoever, and to contract

Who to con-

with the owner or owners of any steamboat or other

tract with.

railroad company for the transportation of freight

and passengers to and from any such railroads or

steamboats.

SEC 2. And be it enacted, That the Annapolis

and Baltimore Short Line Railroad Company afore-

said shall have power to unite, connect and consoli-

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