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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 275.

AN ACT to grant additional powers to the Maryland

Lumber Company of Allegany county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the Maryland Lumber Company

of Allegany county, a corporation duly chartered

under the provisions of the general incorporation law

of this state, be and is hereby authorized and empow-

Build and con-
struct the tram-

ered to build and construct one or more tramroads or

roads, etc.

railways, beginning at any point or points in Allegany

county lying eastward of a line drawn due north from

the mouth of Wills' creek, and running to and con-

necting with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad or

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, or both; and said com-

Improve, widen

pany is also authorized and empowered to improve,

deepen, etc.

straighten, widen, deepen or otherwise prepare for the

purpose of floating logs or timber down the same, any

or all creeks, runs or streams in said Allegany county,

lying eastward of Wills' creek; and said company is

authorized and empowered to build such booms and

dams along or upon any of said streams as may be

necessary to be used in connection with the business

of floating said logs or timber down the same; and

for the purpose of acquiring any right of way neces-

sary for the construction on any such tramroad or

tramroads, railway or railways, and for the purpose of

acquiring the beds of any such stream or streams, or

right of way along the banks thereof, said company

Powers of con-

is authorized and empowered to condemn the same in

demnation.

the same manner and subject to the same restrictions

as are provided and contained in the charter of the

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in respect to

condemnations, and any such tramroad or tramroads,

railway or railways, water way or water ways, so

constructed, shall be deemed public highways, and in .

respect to the use thereof said company shall be

deemed a common carrier.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the general assem-

Reservation.

bly hereby reserves the right to repeal, amend or

modify this act at any time.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.