ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 85.

AN ACT to authorize The Susquehanna Water Power

and Paper Company of Harford county to acquire

certain property by condemnation.

WHEREAS the Susquehanna Water Power and Paper

Company of Harford county, a corporation duly char-

tered under the general incorporation law of this state

to manufacture, dispose of and sell prepared paper,

and to do whatever is necessary and proper in relation

thereto, and also to develop, maintain, utilize and dis-

pose of any water power that may be owned or

acquired by said corporation, and to do whatever is

Preamble.

necessary and proper in relation thereto, and in the

use and employment thereof for milling and other

purposes, is engaged in the development and utiliza-

tion of a large and valuable water power on the Sus-

quehanna river, and is desirous of furnishing and

supplying other manufacturing establishments and

mills, besides its own, upon reasonable terms; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the said, The Susquebanna Water

Power and Paper Company of Harford county, is

hereby authorized and empowered, whenever it cannot

agree with the owner or owners of any land, water

rights or interest therein, east of the tow path of the

Tide Water Canal, not further north than Commings'

bridge, and not further south than the northern bound-

aries of the property now held by E. C. Hopkins,

necessary for the proper extension and development

of their present dam, or any dam they may locate or

Power to ac-
quire by pur-

build on or near the site of their present dam, or lia-

chase.

ble to be overflowed or injured by the back water from

said dam, which land, rights or interest therein said cor-

poration may have the power to acquire by purchase

under its charter; or whenever such owner is a feme

covert, minor or non compos mentis, without power

to contract in relation to said property, to proceed to

condemn and acquire the same in the manner pro-

vided for in sections one hundred and seventy-four to

one hundred and seventy-nine, inclusive, of the gen-

eral incorporation, law of this state.

Approved March 20th, 1884.