HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

States, and only the assets of such company
held and invested in the United States shall
be recognized as constituting the reserve fund
so required.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1886.

CHAPTER 133.

AN ACT to extend the privileges and enlarge
the powers of the Baltimore and Eastern
Shore Railroad Company, incorporated un-
der the General Laws of this State.

Effective.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the Baltimore and
Eastern Shore Railroad Company, a corpora-
tion duly incorporated in the year eighteen
hundred and eighty-six, under the provisions
of an Act of the General Assembly, passed at
the January session of eighteen hundred and
seventy-six, chapter two hundred and forty-
two, entitled an act to provide for the crea-
tion and regulation of incorporated companies
in the State of Maryland, for the purpose of
building, equipping, maintaining and working
a railroad from the shores of the Eastern bay,
in Talbot county, to the town of Salisbury, in
Wicomico county, through the counties of Tal-
bot, Caroline, Dorchester and Wicomico, shall,
in addition to the powers granted under the
aforesaid act of eighteen hundred and seventy-
six, and the supplements thereto, and the

Corporation.

amendments thereof, have power to construct
and operate branch roads, to lease, buy and im-
prove lands for pleasure resorts along the line
of their road, to lease, buy and build wharves,
houses and shops for corporate purposes, to
charter, purchase and hold steamboats and
barges, to ply in connection with their rail-
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Additional
powers.