THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

court to record the said certificate, and the said
new consolidated Company shall have, all the
rights, powers and privileges originally conferred
upon the Magnetic Telegraph Company by the Act
to which this is a supplement, and may also have
and exercise in addition thereto, all the rights and
privileges which are by article twenty-six of the
Public General Laws of this State conferred upon
associations formed for the purpose of owning or
constructing lines of telegraph to or from any
point within this State.

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Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the capital
stock of the said consolidated Company shall not
exceed in the aggregate the amounts of the capital
stock of the said several companies forming said

Capital stock
not to exceed.

consolidation; but it shall be lawful for the said
consolidated Company to increase its capital to
such amount as may be necessary for the building
of any additional lines, or for the repair or pur-
chase of any existing lines within this State, or
partly within and partly without this State, and
in order to such building and repair, and as to the
lines so purchased, the said consolidated Company
shall have all the rights and powers of the said
Magnetic Telegraph Company over and in relation
to the lines authorized to be built under its charter
aforesaid, and under said -article twenty-six of the

Lawful to in-
crease its cap-
ital stock.

Public General Laws of this State; provided, how-
ever, that the said Magnetic Telegraph Company
shall only form a consolidation with any other
telegraph line with the consent of the Company
owning the same.

Proviso.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said con-
solidated Company shall be bound on application
of any of the officers of this State, or of the United
States, acting in the event of any war, insurrec-
tion, riot, or other civil commotion, or in the pre-
vention or punishment of crime, or the arrests of
persons charged or suspected thereof, to give to
the communication of such officers, immediate de-
spatch, and the service of a summons or writ on
any officer, agent, or attorney of said consolida-
ted Company, shall be a service of said summons
or writ on said corporation, and shall hold the said
corporation to answer before the tribunal from
whence such summons or writ may be issued.

Bound to give
immediate
dispatch,