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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 62.

Passed Feb
8, 1366.

AN ACT to incorporate the Washington County
Manufacturing and Improvement Company.

Incorporated,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Charles Embrey, Adam Shoop,
Addison T. Munsell, Henry S. Miller, William
Sterne, Victor Cushwa, Joseph H. Farrow, Theo-
dore Embry, Jacob B, Masters and Charles Ardin-
ger, and such other persons as may become asso-
ciated with them in manner as hereinafter men-
tioned, shall be and they are hereby constituted a
body politic and corporate, by the name of the
Washington County Manufacturing and Improve-
ment Company, and by that name shall have suc-
cession, and be liable to sue and be sued, to plead
and to be impleaded in any court whatever, and
may have and use a common seal, and may alter
and renew the same at pleasure, and the said body
corporate shall have all the powers, faculties,
franchises and rights necessary, proper or con-
venient for acquiring, holding, managing, work-
ing, cultivating, building, improving, using and
for selling or otherwise disposing of any or all
property, real or personal, which said corporate
body may deem it expedient or profitable to ac-
quire, hold, manage, sell or otherwise dispose of;

Proviso.

provided, nevertheless, that said corporation shall
not hold more than five hundred acres of land at
any one time.

Power to
erect build-
ings, &c.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That said corporation
shall have all necessary power for erecting build-
ings, saw mills, factories, workshops, steam en-
gines and machinery of every kind, and bridges
and structures of every description, which may be
deemed necessary for the management or use of its
property; also all necessary powers for opening
and constructing railroads, tram roads and other
roads, canals, dams and other improvements for
water transportation in and over its own property,
and shall have all the rights and powers which an
individual has by law to transport the products
and proceeds of its property to market, and shall
have all other rights as to its real estate, live
stock and other personal property which an indivi-
dual owner of like property may lawfully exercise.