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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

landed or taken off, who shall knowingly permit any

such wharf, pier or landing to be or to remain in an

unsafe condition, or any steamboat or transportation

company who shall land passengers at any such wharf,

Penalty.

pier or landing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and

liable to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more

than one hundred dollars, to be collected as other fines

and forfeitures are collected, one-half to go to the in-

former.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 487.

AN ACT to incorporate the Annapolis and Bay Ridge

Railroad Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That Harry E. Loane, E. F. Steck, A.

C. Haines, H. B. Ring, James H. Brown, John Ire-

land, James H. Vansant, A. W. Fletcher, H. D.

Schmidt and Walter L. Virtue, and their successors,

Railroad incor-

be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate,
under the title of the Annapolis and Bay Ridge Rail-

porated.

road Company, and shall be capable of purchasing,

holding, selling, leasing and conveying estates and

property as natural persons; may have and use a com-

mon seal, which they may alter and renew at pleas-

ure, sue and be sued, and have and enjoy all the pow-

ers, rights, privileges, franchises and immunities

which any other corporation may have and exercise

for the purposes of this act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock

Capital stock.

of said corporation shall be one hundred thousand dol-

lars, divided into two thousand shares, of the par value

of fifty dollars each, and shall be sold and paid for as

may be determined by the said corporators hereunder,

or a majority of them; and if any shares of stock re-

main unpaid for, after the payment thereof is re-

quested, either in whole or in part, the same may be

Forfeit shares.

forfeited to the corporation and reissued or resold, as

may be determined by the president and directors, if