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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Objects of
corporation

with the necessary and proper switches, turnouts, side tracks
. and any and all mechanical devices and appliances suitable to
operate an electric railway, and to run thereon cars and carriages
drawn or propelled by electric or other motive power between
the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, and the
town of Upper Marlboro', in Prince George's county, and to
connect the same with like railway within the District of Colum-
bia, with such laterals or, branches as said corporation may deem
Advantageous; to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of any
personal or real property essential or relevant to the uses and
purposes aforesaid, and also to acquire title to any real estate
adjacent to such line of railway, or any lateral or branch thereof,
and to develop, improve, hold and sell such property.

Capital stock

2. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said
company shall consist of two thousand shares of $100 each,
being a total capital of $200,000, which may at any time be
increased or diminished in the mode pointed out by the present
general incorporation laws of this State.

Approved April 2, 1896.

CHAPTER 24G.

AN ACT to repeal Section two hundred and thirty of Article
ninety-three of the Code of Public General Laws, title
" Testamentary Law," sub-title " Orphans' Court," and to
re enact the same, with an amendment, extending the juris-
diction of Orphans' Courts to the estates of persons absent
and unheard of for above seven years.

Bepeal.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted' ly the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section two hundred and thirty of Article ninety-
three of the Code of Public General Laws, title " Testamen-
tary Law," sub-title " Orphans' Court," be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

Jurisdiction
of Orphans
Court.

230. The court shall have full power to take probate of wills,
grant letters testamentary and of administration, direct the
is conduct and settling the accounts of executors and administra-
tors, superintend the distribution of the estates of intestates,
secure the rights of orphans and legatees, and to administer
justice in all matters relative to the affairs of deceased persons ;
and also of persons who by their uninterrupted' absence, un-