JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the charter of The Hagerstown February
Company of Washington county, Maryland, be and the same
is hereby amended, and the said company is hereby authorized
and empowered to buy, lease, sell to or consolidate with any
other railroad or railway.

CHAP. 430.
Amended.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said railway-
company be and the same is hereby authorized and empowered
to extend its lines of railway to any other points in Washing-
ton county, and to connect with or enter into traffic agreement
with any other railroad or railway, with the right and power
of condemnation, as provided in the Code of Public General
Laws, Article 23, title "Corporations," sub-title " Railroad
Companies."
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.

CHAPTER 431.
AN ACT to change the name, enlarge the powers and amend
the charter of the Hazard Wharf Company of Baltimore
City, a corporation duly created under Article 23 of the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland.

Authority to

extend its

line of
railway

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the name of the Hazard Wharf Company of
Baltimore City, a corporation duly created under Article
twenty-three of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land, by a certificate duly recorded among the charter records
of Baltimore city, be and the same is hereby changed to "The
Hazard Wharf Company," and by such name said corporation
shall have perpetual existence and succession and be capable
in law to sue and be sued ; to complain and defend in any
Court of Law or Equity ; to make and use a common seal and
to alter and change the same at pleasure ; to receive and make
deeds and contracts ; to acquire by purchase, exchange, lease,
mortgage, pledge, or in any other manner whatever, any lands,
chattels, notes, certificates of indebtedness, shares of stock,
bonds or other securities issued by any corporation, or any
kind or form of real, or personal or mixed property, or any
interest or estate therein, and to hold, use, manage, operate or
otherwise enjoy, and to sell, exchange, mortgage, lease or
otherwise dispose of any property, interest or estate it may be
go authorized to acquire; to execute all deeds, assignments,
transfers, contracts or their instruments which may be neces-

Body'
corporate.