THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 43.

AN ACT to incorporate the President and Direc-
tors of the Baltimore and Pikesville Railroad
Company of Baltimore.

Passed Feb.
6, 1866:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That John T. Ford, William Thom-
son, Charles H. Mills, Gustavus A. Thomson and
Covington D. Barnetz, be and are hereby appoint-
ed commissioners to open books and receive sub-
scription to the capital stock of the Baltimore and
Pikesville Railroad company, hereby incorporated,
and they or a majority of them,. shall at any time
within one year after the passage of this act, pro-
cure a sufficient number of suitable books, which
shall be opened at such time or times, place or
places as they may think proper, in each of which

Incorporated.

said books shall be made the following entry: We
whose names are hereunto subscribed do promise
to pay to the President and Directors of the Balti-
more and Pikesville Railroad Company, the sum
of twenty dollars for each and every share of stock
set opposite to our respective names in such man-
ner and proportion and at such times as shall be
determined by the President and Directors of the
said company, in pursuance of An Act to the
General Assembly of Maryland, entitled, " An
Act to incorporate the Baltimore and Pikesville
Railroad Company, " as witness our hand and seals
this day of in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and and if any
of the said commissioners shall die or decline to
act before the fulfilment of the duties devolved
on them by this act, others may be appointed in
their stead by the remaining commissioners.

Entry on
books.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock
of said Baltimore and Pikesville Railroad company
shall be two hundred thousand dollars in shares of
twenty dollars each, and as soon as five hundred
shares of said stock shall be subscribed and paid
ill, the subscribers, their successors and assigns
shall be are and hereby declared to be incorporated
by the name and style and title of the Baltimore
and Pikesville Railroad Company, anil by that
name shall have perpetual succession and be capa-
ble in law of purchasing, receiving, holding, using,

Capital stock